4/12/2023 0 Comments Pfpx aircraft templates![]() i'd like to test in ISA a few cruise power/speed/fuel consumption settings to compare them to the book and make a variant profile from that and see how it works. ![]() i'll continue to tweak it as time permits. for example last night i did a test flight and it predicted about 3hr flight, i ran things a little faster (at 135 BMEP instead of the book value of 125 and did it in 2h and yet still used almost 1500lb less fuel than predicted.Īt least the positive thing is taht this is still useful as a starting point for getting to the destination with reasonable fuel remaining. someone else posted in another thread that when they set the book power rpm and BMEP the fuel usage was a lot different than predicted, when i checked that i noticed it also, but it is actually much higher, while these numbers seem to calculate as much lower! quite mystifying. unfortunately i have not had time to do a thorough analysis. or something amiss with pfpx calcs, i don't know. ![]() frankly i think there might be something amiss with the plane's performance compared to the book numbers. ![]()
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