Major A writes: > Thanks Jim, things look a lot better now. I tried a flight today, from > EDDF to KDTW, which should be well in the range of a fully loaded > 747-400. I used full throttle to climb to FL290 first, then in steps > up to FL410. Throttle was taken back so as to make the airspeed > something between Mach 0.82 and 0.84 (towards the end, this worked out > at less than 80%). Even so, I didn't make it -- I had to land the bird > at CYYR with only a few minutes' worth of fuel (at full throttle) > left. > > This is all with the 747 config modified to full tank on take-off > (1.0). > > All other settings, weather included, were the default. > > Any ideas?
My gutt feeling is that all the YASim jet's consume fuel faster than they should. The a4 can go about 150 miles before it runs out of fuel. I'm not a jet pilot though so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
