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  2. [SOLVED] FMS FLIGHT LOG PAGE - FUEL USED RESET

    in Technical Support

    Posted

    9 hours ago, richjb said:

    Sure!  Quick turn with no power down.  Yesterday, after leaving KELD I had two quick turns in KICT and KDEN before returning to KICT.  On each leg we never powered down, which normally re-sets the fuel used.  When you do not power down, the only way to reset the fuel used for each leg is to press the DEL key and put DELETE into the scratch pad. You then move the DELETE from scratch pad into the FUEL USED field with the LSK and that clears the fuel used and restarts the counter in the FMS.  That way, we can record how much fuel is used for current flight leg.  

    Most operators track the fuel used on each leg.  They can track metrics like fuel used per flight mile, fuel used per hour which then goes into the DOC for the airplane for cost analysis and billing purposes.  Even part 91 corporate operators will usually bill back internally the per hour cost of the airplane to the unit using the airplane.  What I call "funny money" because it comes out of one group's budget and goes into another group's budget.   if you are flying charters, then it's very important to know the fuel burn per hour because that goes into the hourly charge for chartering the airplane.  

    In a more practical "flying the airplane" sense, it is also important to know how much fuel has been burned from the start of the flight for the current flight leg.   Let's say you left on your oceanic flight with 15000 lbs. of fuel.  You're 2 hours into the flight and burned about 5000 lbs.   You should have 10,000 lbs. in the tanks.  if fuel gauges are showing 8000 lbs., you might have a problem. For example, a fuel leak.  You might be going down the line of Air Transat flight 236, the A330 that dead sticked into the Azores after a fuel leak developed.  Since that incident, most of the checklist for fuel imbalance have the pilots check for the possibility of a fuel leak by comparing fuel at block out minus the fuel used against the total fuel remaining in the tanks.  If they grossly disagree then you might want to 1) think twice about balancing fuel, i.e., feeding a fuel leak from the tank(s) not leaking, and 2) consider getting on the ground before things get real bad...and real quiet. 

    Unfortunately, Collins doesn't mention using the DELETE to reset the FUEL USED in the FMS in the CL650 FMS manual that I have, and for what it's worth, it doesn't mention it in the current CL300/CL350 manual that I have.  In fact, the pages discussing the FLIGHT LOG CDU page in these two manuals are identical.  

    I hope this helps!

    Rich Boll 

     

    That definetly helped !! I was wondering about a scenario where to use this option and now its all clear ;-)

    Thank you very much for the brief explanation, Rich ..

     

    Oliver

     

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  3. (Solved) ILS apps missing in FMS - LICJ Palermo

    in Systems and Tech

    Posted

    1 hour ago, oisin650 said:

    Good afternoon, 

    I have checked this out using Navigraph data and the ILS approaches are in the 650's FMS, they're just listed as LOC approaches. I checked with the Zibo and the same approaches show up. This is a Navigraph issue and I suggest you raise it with them. 

    Brgds,

    Thanks OISIN650, 
    I found this from NAVIGRAPH to complete your response ;-), also for others to know

    https://forum.navigraph.com/t/no-ils-for-licj-rwy-20-and-rwy-25/6280

     

    Oliver

  4. (Solved) ILS apps missing in FMS - LICJ Palermo

    in Systems and Tech

    Posted · Edited by oisin650

    Good morning

     

    I'd like to report that as a possible bug:

     

    REFERENCE:  ILS approach into LICJ Palermo ITALY

    The CL6590 FMS is not listing the ILS20 and ILS25 approaches while in both databases (see below).

    The FMS is listing the RNPs and VORs approaches, though. 

    NAVIGRAPH Charts has the plates for the ILSs

     

    3rd party scenery from TDG: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/42108-licj-palermo-airport-sicily/

    As far as i can tell, theres no other custom nav.dat

     

    DEFAULT DATA

     4  38.165000000   13.084972222       36    11055    18  72923.813  ITO LICJ LI 20 ILS-cat-I
     6  38.181416667   13.092527778       36    11055    18 300203.813  ITO LICJ LI 20 GS
    12  38.181472222   13.092250000       36    11055    25      0.000  ITO LICJ LI PUNTA RAISI DME-ILS
     4  38.173650000   13.084558333       50    10950    18  88446.845  RAI LICJ LI 25 ILS-cat-I
     6  38.183250000   13.116833333       50    10950    18 300246.845  RAI LICJ LI 25 GS
    12  38.183027778   13.116944444       72    10950    25      0.000  RAI LICJ LI PUNTA RAISI DME-ILS

     

    CUSTOM DATA (NAVIGRAPH current)

     4  38.165000000   13.084972222       36    11055    18  72563.813  ITO LICJ LI 20 ILS-cat-I
     6  38.181416667   13.092527778       36    11055    18 300203.813  ITO LICJ LI 20 GS
    12  38.181472222   13.092250000       36    11055    25      0.000  ITO LICJ LI PUNTA RAISI DME-ILS
     4  38.173650000   13.084558333       50    10950    18  88086.845  RAI LICJ LI 25 ILS-cat-I
     6  38.183250000   13.116833333       50    10950    18 300246.845  RAI LICJ LI 25 GS

     

    Oliver

  11. Automate the flight attendant cabin announcements?

    in Ground Services

    Posted · Edited by JetNoise

    1 hour ago, pcartier1960 said:

    Nothing, I was laughing at this statement: 

    "I didn't realize that in the real thing the pilot had to get out of his seat, head over to the touch screen panel above the sink, press an announcement button, and then head back to his seat each time" 

    Can you imagine what that would look like!  

     

    Right, but you have to get out of your seat (or your 2nd pilot !! ), welcome your customers, close the door, close the curtain, do the pax brief verbally or by tablet (if not available via remote on your EFB), close the cabin door, IF  you don't have the luxury of having a flight attendant.

    For the Landing announcement I'll get out of my seat ( while Toto is flying the airplane)

    , hit that button on that console, have a chat with my pax and go for a P.

    That is immersive...

     

    2nd, and thats regarding the OP:

    I've seen many automatically triggered simulations of pax briefings/announcements etc. They All don't work well BECAUSE of the triggers you need to use and combine.

    Like: below 10000ft and Landing lights on.   Strobe lights on when entering the rwy and so on.  What about when crossing a rwy during taxy then ? 

    What about high altitude airports, what about changing baro around FL 100 when descending below your transition alt (Europe) and end up above 100 again because of the baro change....

    What about the turbulence announcements? When will they kick on? Everytime xplane updates its weather (with wind dir changes) !

     

    Not immersive in any way, THAT'S IMO (and experience)

    Oliver

  21. Better pushback after update 1.31

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Litjan said:

    Hmm, I could make a command for the grd call button so that you can map it to a joystick button - then you can map the same joystick button to a better pushback command (if they have one)...

    Cheers, Jan

     

    Here you go, Jan and team ;-)

    START PLANNING:  BetterPushback/start_planner

    STOP PLANNING:  BetterPushback/stop_planner

    REQUEST PUSHBACK:  BetterPushback/start

    The last one is IMHO the one to be mapped to the GND CALL button

    Oliver

  22. Persistence Issues

    in G1000 SR22 Series

    Posted

    12 hours ago, LKN said:

    Same here with the 1.0.0 yesterday I lost my 19,7 hours Flight Time and it got back to the value default

    Now I'm downloading the 1.0.1 but by reading you guys it seems that the issue is still there, it happened twice before but since July 26th it didn't happen except yesterday where I lost everything in terms of persistence system...

    The goal is too feel this beautiful bird alive and not having a brand new after 20 hours in the skies... however it's such a fantastic addon and its first steps so hopefully this issue will be fixed or is already ...

     

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    20200805_173650.jpg

    Hi, 

     

    if you like to bring your hobbs time back, find \Output\SR22\TN_State.txt  and edit the value(s) you need.  Numbers are in seconds iirc (20hrs = 20*60*60)

    Run a copy first and keep a backup of the folder until fixed

    Oliver

     

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