Andrew Siddall Comet 4 fuel figures

[MALTBY D]

If you see this Andrew, it's nothing important, but I'd love to know what's going on with the Comet 4 fuel burn.

You've give it a good thrashing this month & I see quite a few of the flight reports show fuel burn figures way off average. Enough to have them automatically marked as 'suspect' on our stats pages.
I'd expect the Comet 4 to be giving around the 3500-4000 kg/hr mark for fuel burn. Most of your flights are around this level, but some of the flights are low (2500 kg/hr), some of them very high (6000+ kg/hr).

12 flights out of 23 this month have odd fuel figures. Any ideas of what may have been going on?

Cheers
David

[Globitz]

Hi David,

Thanks for getting back about this I have been wondering why those little question marks kept appearing. I have been flying all of the Comet 4 flights with your aircraft in BOAC colours as part of the 2070827.zip package (unmodified). I have flown with real weather via Active Sky 6.5, I tend to fly at around 34,000 feet at around 7,000 RPM to give a speed about 0.74 Mach.

Are there any mods to the standard download that I may have missed for the Comet. If not then I do not really understand.

EDIT - HI David, I have just been looking at the times taken for my flights, I seem to be taking very little time to cover some reasonably long distances. I have just started a flight but I
will try to see whether I am logging Flight or System time.....could have got confused when I reinstalled last month as this is the first time that I have been crossing timezones. -EDIT

Cheers

Andy

[MALTBY D]

Thanks Andy.
I can see what's been happening now. There must be a problem somewhere in the way FSA deals with start/end times to get the duration/hours values. Maybe, as you say, some link to timezones?
An example of the flight report on FSA for your flight Apr 15 2009, 15:29 (16:29 GMT).
Departure: OPKC \ 04:24, Arrival: ORBS \ 10:25, Distance: 1301nm, Duration: 06:01 (4h)
So it reckons Duration was 6 hours, but Hours was 4 !

I'm going through adjusting the hours/duration values held on our CBFS database.
The few I've done so far are now calculating perfectly reasonable fuel figures. Good job, because your 34,000ft, 0.74M sounds exactly how it should be.

Cheers
David

[simondix]

Dave,
Does FS Airlines have a similar set up as FSACARS, if so sometimes with Vista that cocks the time up.

[Globitz]

Thanks David,

I thought something was fishy when I looked at FSA and realised that I had once travelled 599 Miles in 0.5 Hr. :o

Cheers

Andy