Originally Posted by
Alex Whittingham
At the risk of looking stupid, on a fixed wing type you'd normally do the fuel checks against a computer flight plan. Do helicopters use the same thing? If so, could anyone send me a sample, please? If not, how do you do it?
In essence, yes.
Our OFP produces a planned flight time and planned fuel burn. As part of our initial cruise checks, we compare these numbers against those numbers generated by the FMS.
These numbers are then periodically cross checked during the flight.
HTH