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737-900 range

Postby f-16 » Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:17 pm

Can a 737-900 make the following flights:
KLAX to PHNL (Honolulu).
PHNL to Tokyo Haneda.
KJFK to Barbadose.

Can the aircraft make these flights and ranges in real life?
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Re: 737-900 range

Postby Dan » Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:29 pm

Use FS2002 flight planner to find out how far they are, then check the specs or google to find the range.
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Re: 737-900 range

Postby garymbuska » Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:58 pm

As long as it stops at the correct cloud for gas ;D
Under ideal conditions these legs might be possable. But you might have a hard time trying to find pilots willing to fly them. Although I am not that familar with 737-900 I know that in the real world these legs are useally flown by 747's; L1011's; DC-10's; MD11's and a few 767-400ER. Altough the 737-900 might be able to make one of those legs But I think that it would be pushing the range a bit.
When you plan the flights look in the nav log it will tell you how much fuel is needed. But rember that does not count fuel for taxi or any apu use. And there is no fuel reserve  8)
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Re: 737-900 range

Postby Nexus » Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:43 pm

The 737-900 has the shortest range capabilities of all the 737NG's...
If you want to fly far away with a 737...choose the 737-700.

With 110pax, it can fly from Boston to Berlin, although you'll be flying on fumes when you arrive ;)

To answer your first question, YES...You can fly from LA to Honolulu with the 739, but you'd better pick "as the crow flies"
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Re: 737-900 range

Postby YodaNYC » Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:15 pm

In real life I flew on a Privat Air 737 business jet non-stop from KEWR to Duesseldorf.  Plane only carried 45 passengers in a business class configuration.  One of my most enjoyable flights ever
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Re: 737-900 range

Postby Nexus » Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:35 pm

Those BBJ's have extra auxiliary fuel tanks in the cargo compartment, the max number of tanks is 9 for the BBJ and 7 for the BBJ2
These have a capacity of over 3.500 gallons of extra fuel, more than the total capacity of a 1.
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