Calling Andrew P..

[andrew]

Thanks Gary! Will give it a go!

[TSR2]

Exactly the same thing happened to me on my second 10 flight... on finals into heathrow 9L everything went quiet... even with 3% fuel in all the tanks. I was actually on MSN to John at the time, then glanced over at the and all hands to the pumps!

I always try and plan on having the 4000kgs left as reserve, ha got me out of many a sticky situation.

[MALTBY D]

DaveB's & Ben's 4000kg figure for minimum fuel rings a bell with me too. I'm pretty sure that's in the accepted minimum on real ones.
You could fly with less, but they offered no guarantees of survival.

I now remember thinking it was fair game to start chopping the engines if you reached half the minimum. Adds a bit of fun.

The VC10 is the only one of my models that does that, which is probably why even I'd forgot about it.
In contrast, the minimum remaining fuel on a 1-11 could probably fit in the tea urn.

DM

[Chris Trott]

I think that maybe this thread should be returned to a sticky so that everyone can look at it as it's very helpful for people who are just starting out to do good fuel planning an not run out.

http://cbfsim.org/cb-bb/viewtopic.php?t=5981

[TSR2]

Hi Guys.

Andrew, I have had to delete your aol email adress from our database as it is coming up undeliverable. When you get an email adress that is working, let me know via PM and I'll add it in.

Cheers Matey.