by Steve Waite » Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:13 pm
New users of Ideal Flight notice that it does not guess fuel used. Fuel is measured when we fly.
Fuel in Ideal Flight is determined by what we actually use in that plane in our sim.
This is not the same as real life aircraft. This enables the developer of aircraft to evaluate and adjust the fuel scalars to best simulate the aircraft fuelling behaviour. And that would have to be done with careful simulator setup and also careful flying.
If the aircraft uses more fuel than it is supposed to, then we look at our flying, the weather, the add-on. We use Ideal Flight to tell us what we used and from that, by the available fuel load, the aircraft fuel Range.
We put the Range into the Aircraft Flight Parameters page when we have an idea what it will be. We can start by choosing what the manufacturer states on the aircraft website, for example. Or our guess. Ideal Flight makes a guess to start with based on engine power, count, and total drag of the aircraft. So don't expect the out-of-the-box Range to be much good when we load a new aircraft.
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