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lucasgozzard New Member Offline Posts: 1 Joined: Mar 23^rd, 2011	Working out fuel quantity Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 9:02am	Print Post
	Hey folks!! I was wondering if anyone knew how to calculate the fuel quantity roughly accurate in the 767 because everytime I put in ZFW, it says invalid entry. So maybe the ZFW and fuel onboard doesn't make sense? Hope someone can help! Cheers.


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CoolP Senior Member Offline Posts: 2568 Joined: Jan 17^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Working out fuel quantity Reply #1 - Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 9:45am	Print Post
	Welcome, lucasgozzard. Is it possible that you are mixing up the definition of ZFW? This would lead you to wrong numbers and the FMC to define those wrong values as invalid entries then. The ZFW is your empty weight + passenger and payload (usually summarized as "payload" in FSX). Maybe this tutorial can help you too. http://www.captainsim.org/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1220997876


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TurbofanDude Full Member Offline Programmer, B-52H and 737NG Lover Posts: 143 Location: United States Joined: Dec 11^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Working out fuel quantity Reply #2 - May 13^th, 2011 at 7:42pm	Print Post
	The ZFW, or Zero Fuel Weight, is the weight of the plane itself (empty weight) plus the payload (cargo+pax). The ZFW is put into the FMC as a XXX.X number, and is abbreviated by hundreds, SO, empty weight (these are NOT real numbers, just examples) is 145,334LBS payload is 32,029LBS, the total weight without fuel would be 177,363. Now, this would be put in as 177.4. You round up to the nearest hundred, and that becomes the number in the decimal place. When the FMC yhas the ZFW, the fuel is automatically calculated, as well as a bunch of other valuable performance info. I hope that helps!

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DAL191 Senior Member Offline Posts: 388 Location: Tampa FL USA Joined: Nov 26^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Working out fuel quantity Reply #3 - May 14^th, 2011 at 6:58am	Print Post
	TurbofanDude wrote on May 13^th, 2011 at 7:42pm: When the FMC yhas the ZFW, the fuel is automatically calculated I hope that helps! Are your sure about this? Thank you Michael Cubine

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