Hmmmm, fuel required

[adysmith]

When I did my TR flights in the VC10 I came up with a rough guide to how much fuel to load, first few revenue flights and this proved to be very conservative so I started looking at how much fuel had been used on previous trips of the sectors I was flying then added a bit for the wife and kids then a reserve of about five tonnes.

Hong Kong to Bombay (Mumbai) loaded about 36 Tonnes, it was nowhere near enough, had to divert to Calcutta!

[DaveB]

That leg shows around 33.5k used in stats for the twice its been flown. Were you running into a head wind? Been a long time since I've flown the 10 but I seem to remember 7t per hour as a rough guide.
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DaveB

[adysmith]

Could have been the headwind, but even allowing for that I don't think I would have had a lot to spare

Off to KAI TAK now with a forecast 100 knot tail wind at altitude

[DaveB]

Now thats what you like to hear

I always found crossing the Atlantic in the 10 disturbing with fuelburn as up to a certain point in the flight.. you were going to get wet feet It was always a relief to reach the stage where sufficient fuel had burned and rpm started to drop/range started to increase. Good luck on the flight to Honky Fid
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DaveB