Post by Rick Winkelman on Oct 29th, 2012 at 9:54am
A question for all of you,
Every flight i make i try to figure out how the fuel system works. I have tried the official operating manual and the sheet Lou has gives us like shown below.
Now my problem is that everytime i'm folowing the sheet my engines stops.
Like in the first example:
I have more than 9000KG of fuel in my center tank, so here are the things i do:
Now if I do this, engine 2 and 3 are shutting down, the same situation only than for engine 1 and 4 if i leave 2 and 3 on and I close 1 and 4.
What am i doing wrong here?
Also if I give the aircraft her fuel and only filling the main tanks and center tanks, the other tanks gives me the warning lights for the low pressure, I understand this because there is no fuel in it. but can I turn those warning lights off or do I need to fill all the tanks for a good flight.
This information is needed because:
Now more information about the fuel planner.
Here i a list with the thing i have added.
At this moment it still needs some fine tuning but for 95% of my flights it is calculating my fuel with still 45 minuts of reserve at destination.
Kindly regards,
Rick Winkelman
Every flight i make i try to figure out how the fuel system works. I have tried the official operating manual and the sheet Lou has gives us like shown below.
Now my problem is that everytime i'm folowing the sheet my engines stops.
Like in the first example:
I have more than 9000KG of fuel in my center tank, so here are the things i do:
- All boost pumps are on
- Crossfeed selectors for engine 1 and 4 open
- Crossfeed selectors for engine 2 and 3 closed.
Now if I do this, engine 2 and 3 are shutting down, the same situation only than for engine 1 and 4 if i leave 2 and 3 on and I close 1 and 4.
What am i doing wrong here?
Also if I give the aircraft her fuel and only filling the main tanks and center tanks, the other tanks gives me the warning lights for the low pressure, I understand this because there is no fuel in it. but can I turn those warning lights off or do I need to fill all the tanks for a good flight.
This information is needed because:
[1] I want to make my flight as realistic as possible
[2] In the fuel planner that I am making there is a special sheet for the fuel distribution.
Now more information about the fuel planner.
Here i a list with the thing i have added.
- Performance sheets in LBS and KG
- Fuel sheets in LBS and KG
- Flight planning forms for LBS and KG
- Fuel Distribution on the Fuel sheet
- Takeoff speeds
- based on VBA logic
- Option to print the fuel sheet with one press on the button
- Automatic calculation of the flight time and fuel that is left in the tanks at arrival
At this moment it still needs some fine tuning but for 95% of my flights it is calculating my fuel with still 45 minuts of reserve at destination.
Kindly regards,
Rick Winkelman