Trident update - Anyone want a go?

[TobyV]

Very nice. From the looks of that they should have built the 1F straight away, might have had more of a chance of givign the 727 a run for its money. I hadnt realised that was supposed to be longer. You'd think even BEA would have learned their lesson by the time they asked for the T2E

[bigred1970]

just downloaded this and am enjoying it. yes the stall warning and recovery is a wake up call, but it works, last time I stalled a airliner at <1000ft agl (ie, almost every day....... :redface: ), uh it took a dirt nap.... the trident rcovered will very little loss in altitude....nice.

one thing though, I am getting range estimates on the mini checklist that are WAY above the ranges listed in the guide, I decided to take the t2 from kstd to juneu alaska because the range seemed perfect (2100-2500nm) however once I got in the air I was getting a range estimate of 3700nm. I have gotten 3100 in the t3...... is this just a bug in the minichecklist?

[Chris Trott]

No. It's because the range posted is for fuel with max payload and required IFR reserves. If I remember correctly, none of David's aircraft are at max payload which allows you to take full fuel which will give better range, but again, the range figure doesn't account for the requirement to maintain a 45 minute reserve onboard.

[MALTBY D]

Good spot that man!
The range calc seems to only be using two engine's worth of fuel flow.
Obviously copied it in from the 1-11 & forgot to alter it.
From what I can tell it's always been like that, certainly pre dates this update anyway. Oops. :redface:

The estimated range is only a very simple calc for that moment in time from the current Fuel Flow, Fuel Quantity & Ground Speed.
That's the theory. Of course it will always be slightly on the high side if you only declare two thirds of the fuel flow.

I'll add it to the list of fixes.
Thanks for letting on bigred

DM