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Old 13th Sep 2007, 15:26
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Perhaps this could be copied to the Instructor/ Examminer forum for discussion.

Some points I find worthy of discussion:

The Fuel planning line shows a mix of units - litres and gallons. Are they US or UK gallons?

Thus we have a POH and fuel gauges in US gallons, a PLOG with litres and possibly some UK gallons mixed in there also.

Is 7 GPH (assuming US gallons) not a bit tight for the ab-initio solo student at lower levels with probably not a fully leaned mixture and no allowance for climb etc.

While the leg can start from an adjacent VRP or feature - a very good idea at busy airfields, it is a good idea to plan the leg so that if the vis is a bit worse than expected or simply to ease workload, the heading can be flown for the appropriate time. This student knows Cranfield's local area well but will not have that luxury elsewhere - note how subsequent flights did not use the same technique.

The plog also shows no allowance for the time and fuel consumed flying to and from the VRP.

What fuel has been allocated for each flight to;

Route?
Final Reserve?
Alternate(s) (if required); and
Contingency?
Extra fuel?

Was this on another piece of paper?

As BEagle says - well done on the flight but many points to considder.

Regards,

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