IFDG Usair Boeing 767-200

[A/SGT.Mav316]

I am working on a picture gallery right now .

There are going to be 2 of them, my Millitary planes hanger and My civil planes hanger. I am not big on helicopters (as it seems niether is SimV) We still haven't seen any real break through in helicopters yet.

[A/SGT.Mav316]

:o man the 767-200 can't reach and cruise at an altitude of 30,000 ft  :o No matter what I did it seemed she refused to climb over 28,000, kept stalling on me and the auto pilot got it as high as 29,988 ft and it began to stall.

Why would one ask am I forcing this plane to fly so unrealistically high. I was attempting to fly on full throttle to burn the full off, so that I can test the collapsing front landing gear theory. With at lest 10lbs of fuel in the tank I wanted to see if she would land without the gear collapsing.

The mission failed because I went messing with the ailerons and the trims and then FS9 went bust! It crashed and I lost the flight. Throughout the whole ordeal I realised this plane has excellent fuel milage and burning the gas off wasn't happening on a island hop for Hawaii to its furthest neighboor and back. I would leave the engines runnning at full throttle on the ground, but it seems to have the same slow burn off rate  >:(! Well I can give the plane an A+ for consumption rate. But as for the front gear crashing on me that gets an F+.

Guess i will have to plan a flight of 15,000 ft from NY to St Thomas USVI to see how much full I can burn in that 3 hour period. Did it before  ;D never kept track though. Wow what a enthusiast (LOSER) ! It was a slow night and the woman was away, what else is there to do?

Does anyone have a way of producing a fuel dump on FS aircraft?

[A/SGT.Mav316]

Ok the theory has been proven I took a flight from Puerto Rica Luis Munoz to St.Thomas and circled the island 3 times before landing. The fuel weight was down to 144 gallons and I took it in and she landed without mishap!

Thanks for the info VLvandem

[Donnie111]

wow

[PH_AJH]

About the fuel-load and you worrying about running out of fuel: I don't know, but a 767 will be capable of a 8 or 9 hour flight I guess....so taking on 15% of the total fuel will give you about 1 1/2 hour to fly....Wouldn't that be enough??? On my flights from Amsterdam to Dublin in a 757 I usually load about 18% of the total fuel and this is more then enough, even with a strong headwind and a few go-arounds. Having little fuel does a lot of things: reduce take-off speed and lenght of the take-off roll, increase climb performance, increase cruise level, decrease landing speed (and ease of control!), decrease of repair bills for broken gear struts . It makes a really really huge difference. In real life cruise flight levels go up further into longer flights because the plane gets lighter.

There's no way to dump fuel but you can press "alt", select "aircraft"- then "fuel and payload" and adjust the numbers in FS2004. In FS2002 it's called differently but in the same place I think.

Oh nice pics by the way.

Cheers
AJ

[A/SGT.Mav316]

thanks for the reply AJ

your info has come in very useful to me. I wasn't worrying about losing fuel though! That is what I was trying to do...lose the fuel. This boeing 767 has a tendancy to break its front strut when landing with too much gas on the payload. But I discovered by burning down the fuel supply so that the guage reads off 144 x1000 lbs, that the plane lands correctly without the landing gear snapping.

That is the reason for my asking about the fuel dump option. I like short flights  ;D and I like this plane but all that fuel makes me go  :oOHOH better get Macho on every landing.

But it is all ok now, Just have to spend more time in the air to burn down the supply to 144.

[PH_AJH]

Just have to spend more time in the air to burn down the supply to 144

Mav, not sure if you got the message...with 3 mouseclicks you can load your plane with the amount of fuel you want. You can do that while flying or before take off. No need to spend hours in the sky to burn it.
I'll repeat:
Press "alt", select "aircraft"- then "fuel and payload" and adjust the numbers in FS2004. In FS2002 it's called differently but in the same place I think.
AJ