DC3

[markyp]

Hi there,

Would anyone have or know what Air Atlantique use or someone like that for a fuel planning?

Maybe it is not used but HOLD, CONT, RES etc. Just I know some people have info from Air Atantique!

Or point me in the right direction to fuel load this beast accurately as possible??

Thanks a mill

Mark

[boxjockey]

Greetings Mark,

We operate our Daks on a full JAR AOC, and as such conform to standard JAR-OPS regs when it comes to fuel planning. So for our DC-3's we use the following......

Taxy - (to include all expected taxying and power checks) usually 10 IG
Trip - (fuel to destination. Work on 90 IG for the first hour then 80 for every hour after that.)
Contingency - 5% of trip fuel.
Alternate - (fuel to fly from overhead destination then to an alternate plus 5% contingency)
Final feserve fuel - (for us this is 50 IG)
Extra fuel - (any extra fuel if required by the commander i.e. if he expects a long hold, higher headwinds or not to get the route he's planned to take)

Add this all together and you get the total required.

Hope this helps.

Jon.

[DaveB]

There you go Mark.. how's that for service!!

Many thanks for that Jon

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[markyp]

Hi there,

Now that is awsome service!!

thanks very much.

Do I take it from your figures that your final reserve fuel is a standard one?

As with some airliner based there final res is 30mins of holding fuel at 1500ft? Is this what your figure equates to?

How many imp gals to a lb?

Thanks again

Mark

[ferryman]

How many imp gals to a lb?

1 Imp Gallon = 1.2 US Gallons (remember that next time you get told that everything is bigger over there )

Therefore at 15degC (assuming 1 US gallon of avgas 6.02lbs), an Imperial gallon of avgas should weigh 7.224lbs.

[Garry Russell]

1 Imp Gallon = 1.2 US Gallons (remember that next time you get told that everything is bigger over there )

Ah yes but some things they make smaller so they can say they have more of them!

BTW wrong section :huf:



Garry