Fuel, Weight & Vspeed Planner

Version 2.0, Release December 2006 Copyright UVA, All rights reserved Use restricted to UVA operations

737-500

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Aircraft Type
777-300R

Empty Weight 370,000

Max T/O Weight 775,000

Max Lnding Weight 554,000

Maximum Payload 154,000

Max Zero Fuel Weight 524,000

Fuel Burn PPH 16,000

Average Cruise TAS 482

Enter Values Here

DEFINITION Hours Burnout

Trip Length Wind Adjustment Time to Alternate Contingency Fuel Captain's Fuel Minimum Landing Fuel

Total flying hours planned for flight from T/O to landing, excludes all other items. Enter amount in hours (ex 2hrs 12 min = 2.2 hrs)

8.2
Headlwind Knts

131,200
Wind

Enter average winds aloft. Headwinds are (-), tailwinds are (+). If winds aloft are unknown, plan for an average 40knts headwind. (-40)

-40
Hours

10,888
Alternate

Enter as hours extra to account for fuel to alternate

1
Hours

16,000
Contingency

Fuel for holds, 2 missed approaches, off optimum flight/route, long taxi, 0.5 hrs is fairly typical.

0.5
Lbs

8,000
Captain's

An additional safety margin, set from none, to say half an hour of cruise fuel. Enter in pounds. Completely at discretion and optional. Absolute minimum fuel on board, legally required on touchdown, will account for 45 min cruise, or 10% trip fuel, (whichever is greater)

13,120
Hours Lbs

Plan Fuel Required

TOTAL AMOUNT OF FUEL REQUIRED FOR FLIGHT (time & amount)

11.20
Endurance Lbs payload Percent of Max

179,208

Lbs

Plan Payload Plan Max Fuel Capacity

Planned payload, specify either weight in Lbs or percent of maximum. To specify a percentage, set Lbs to 0. This is determined by the maximum fuel capacity of the aircraft, as well as the amount of payload and maximum takeoff weight.

80,000
in-use

80%

80,000
Payload

325,000

Plan Zero Fuel Weight

Weight of aircraft with payload, but no fuel

450,000

Plan Takeoff Weight

Takeoff weight for the Trip, with fuel and planned payload

629,208
V1 Vr 166 Flaps 5 V2 171

Plan Takeoff Vspeeds

V2 is the safety climb speed,. For climb to acc'l height (1000AGL) use V2+10 knts. Vr is your rotation speed, and V1 is your decision speed on takeoff roll, after V1 you are committed to t/o. Vref30+80 is the minimum clean (flaps retracted) speed for Boeings

161

Hours

Lbs

Expected Landing Fuel

(no contingency use)

If no contingencies are exercised, this is the typical amount of fuel on board at touchdown. Usually at least 1.5 hrs cruise fuel, a good crosscheck.

2.32
Endurance

37,120

Expected Landing Weight

(no contingency use)

If no contingencies are exercised, this will be the landing weight, ensure that it does not exceed the maximum landing weight.

487,120

Vref+5

Steady wind

Full gusts

Corrected Vref 155 Flaps 30

Plan Approach Vspeed

148 Flaps 30

10

Vref+5 is the target speed only for a full autoland approach, the A/T will provide gust protection. For any other approach, the speed needs to be further adjusted. Specify the landing winds, this will add to Vref+5, of the steady headwind, plus the full excess gust; to a max of 20 additional knts.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE

This Fuel & VSpeed Planner is targeted for those individuals that do not have custom planners and data for their aircraft, or just want something quick and easy to use. The UVA FVP will allow you to input the various required factors for your flight, and issue you a Minimum Landing Fuel amount, as well as an Expected Landing Fuel, and a Total Fuel Required amount which can then be used to load the aircraft for your flight. It will also advise on aircraft weights, and ensure that you are within operational limits. Finally it suggests the flaps to use for takeoff and landing, together with a calculation of the Vspeeds, your target speeds for takeoff and landing. This FVP is designed to be used with any aircraft which has a model accurately representing the average fuel burn of the listed aircraft. The following is a list of step by step instructions, data is only entered in the red outlined grey rectangles. #1. Select Aircraft Type (aircraft data will continue to be tweaked, and we expect to have Vspeeds for the entire fleet in a future update.) #2. Input length of flight in Trip Length box. (see definition on how to properly input flight time) #3. Input Winds aloft Correction (see definition on how to properly input wind) #4. Input Alternate Fuel (see definition on how to properly input alternate time) #5. Input Contingency Fuel (see definition on how to properly input contingency fuel) #6. Input Captain's Fuel (see definition on how to properly input Captain's fuel) #7. Enter the payload weight that you are planning to carry Specify the payload as a percentage of maximum, or enter a weight in pounds. To enter a percentage, the pounds cell must be set to zero. For most aircraft, you cannot carry both a maximum payload and maximum fuel capacity. This is an issue for longer trips. Once the above has been entered, the FVP will calculate the required totals, and issue the fuel and weight totals. The first total is the Minimum Landing Fuel. This amount is the FAR required fuel amount that should be remaining in the aircraft upon landing. The second total is the Plan Fuel Required. This amount will be the amount of total fuel that you put in the aircraft for the flight. It will also advise an Expected Landing Fuel, if no contingencies are exercised. Also calculated is the Plan Takeoff Weight and Expected Landing Weight. Ensure that you do not exceed the maximums. If you have any warnings in the Advice column, you may have to adjust down your payload for the trip, or other factors, to stay within operational limits. Only adjust the payload down if you receive warnings. Finally note that the Vspeeds for takeoff (V1, Vr, V2) and for landing (Vref) are calculated, for the suggested flap settings. Vref30+80 at takeoff, is the Vref for flaps 30 for your takeoff weight. For Boeings, adding 80 knots to this figure will give you your minimum safe speed for flying with no flaps extended, or your Minimum Clean Speed. With flaps retracted, you should fly at least 10 to 20 knts over this speed, for safety. #8. Enter the landing winds, you may not have this available until shortly before landing. For a coupled A/P driven ILS approach, or a hand flown approach, the final corrected Vref speed should be used as your approach speed from the Final Approach Fix, to the runway threshold. Shortly after this point, you will flare the aircraft, and land. Your landing speed should be ideally (Vref + Gusts), but in any case, never less than (Vref 10) knts. Only advanced payware panels have true autoland capability. Such an approach is used in very poor visibility conditions, where a landing couldn't otherwise be safely accomplished. For a full autoland approach, (Vref + 5) is used for the approach speed, as with a true autoland there is gust protection.

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Advice

Vref30+80 246

Corrected Vref

akeoff and landing.

Tables
747-400 777-300R 767-300 757-200 737-500 737-300 A319/320 ERJ-170 ERJ-145 CRJ-700 CRJ-200 DASH8-200 B1900D EMB-120 SF-340 Burn 21700 16000 10000 7100 5000 5200 5400 3000 2253 2750 2500 1325 726 1000 1096 Reserve 16275 12000 7500 5325 3750 3900 4050 2250 1689.75 2062.5 1875 993.75 544.5 750 822 Max Fuel Capacity 383810 390000 160666 76956 35583 35583 42200 20576 11256 19880 17654 5595 4484 4925 5800 Max T/O Max Landing 874999 630002 775000 554000 408000 300001 255031 209990 133490 110011 135003 113979 169800 145503 82012 72312 45415 41226 72750 66999 53001 47000 36299 34500 17120 16765 26433 25794 28000 27200

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Max Payload Avg Cruise TAS 157399 485 154000 480 98099 462 58863 462 33510 440 35605 440 42093 455 19842 450 12159 450 18800 448 13100 424 6000 238 4375 260 7319 260 7500 260 Empty Weight 394090 370000 196000 136907 69005 69446 93035 35165 25722 43500 30292 23003 10650 15655 19000 Max ZFW Emp+MaxPy 542500 551489 524000 524000 294100 294099 188054 195770 102515 102515 106483 105051 138020 135128 79344 55007 37698 37881 62300 62300 44000 43392 29000 29003 15165 15025 24030 22974 25700 26500 v1-m 0.130 0.165 0.281 0.418 0.933 1.067 0.480 0.000 2.111 0.700 2.056 0.000 2.609 0.000 5.596

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v1-i 43.000 57.250 49.500 57.090 30.670 17.330 64.600 0.000 33.670 83.100 31.110 0.000 64.700 0.000 -16.170 vr-m 0.124 0.140 0.256 0.427 0.800 1.167 0.540 0.000 1.944 0.750 1.944 0.000 3.043 0.000 5.293 vr-i 64.400 78.000 64.500 57.640 48.000 8.330 60.800 0.000 41.670 80.250 37.890 0.000 63.480 0.000 -6.830 V2-m 0.120 0.135 0.238 0.373 0.600 0.933 0.500 0.000 1.667 0.550 1.611 0.000 2.609 0.000 4.386 V2-i 78.000 85.750 77.000 73.360 78.000 40.670 69.000 0.000 63.000 104.650 62.220 0.000 71.700 0.000 25.170 Vref-m 0.140 0.165 0.263 0.427 0.636 0.667 0.600 0.000 1.222 1.000 1.611 0.000 3.043 0.000 3.759 Vref-i 66.000 62.250 62.000 48.640 64.360 60.330 50.000 0.000 77.330 68.000 65.220 0.000 64.480 0.000 41.290

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Takeoff Flaps 20 Flaps 5 Flaps 5 Flaps 5 Flaps 5 Flaps 5 Flaps 1+F Flaps 9 Flaps 9 Flaps 8 Flaps 8 Flaps 10 Flaps 15 Landing Flaps 30 Flaps 30 Flaps 30 Flaps 30 Flaps 30 Flaps 30 Flaps Full Flaps 45 Flaps 45 Flaps 45 Flaps 45 Flaps 35 Flaps 35

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