Fuel Conservation
Hi everyone:
I believe the downturn has produced strain in our industry in every corner of the world, and obviously fuel is one of our main concerns as pilots. Besides the obvious, I would like to initiate a serious discusion about fuel conservation. For instance, could we quantify the savings for take offs with flaps 5 instead of 15 in boeing aircraft?, does somebody have a real formula to calculate cost index? safety concerns and advantages of setting climb power at 500 ft. versus 1000, I read somewhere that lufthansa got a very good new program for this...etcjust keep ideas coming and see what comes out of it.
It would be an interesting thread for the ones that want to find ways to alleviate somehow the financial stress our airlines are going through and maybe help ourselves at the same time.