D_D, you bitch!
If you have a decent Mission Computer System which has been designed to be used by aircrew who do not have extensive role experience, in-flight AAR trail re-planning can be achieved far more quickly and accurately than by use of the primitive, inaccurate and mathematically dubious 'RAPS' methodology....
For example, a 6 receiver trail across Australia. Just before the first bracket, one hose fails to trail.... Effort and time required to re-plan a single hose trail?
With the MCS as now flying in the A3
10MRTT, 2 keystrokes and less than a second.
You can also drag and drop the brackets to earlier positions if you wish - the abort points are automatically re-calculated for every bracket. The single hose plan also assumes that you will keep the hose trailed for the whole trip until the end of the last bracket and recalculates the tanker burn accordingly. After each bracket, the receiver fuel states are entered and the subsequent brackets are all adjusted. So good-bye to the wasteful technique of keeping receivers in contact until the geographical end-of-bracket point.
Have you got the same degree of simplicity in your big new jet, my Oz PPRuNe-ing chum?
Hmmm...
The A3
10MRTT MCS is a bit like an AARC-in-a-box. Except that it works considerably faster, doesn't trash hire cars in Palermo, have blonde moments or get itself banned from Atlanta....
