Fuel tankering...How to?
Hello guys!
In my very short career I've only experienced fuel tankering twice, and the second time was the other day.
I was thinking is there an easy way of calculating the fuel uplift?
The company asked us if we can tanker fuel back to base, so doing that we had to punch some numbers.
I was told we can use the following formula:
MLW+Trip fuel-MZFW = max theoretical fuel
But wouldn't that be only if we are LDW limited, what if we was TOW limited?
I was in Malaga and they were using RWY 31, so the on the day conditions only allowed a RTOM of 73.4, bearing in mind our ZFW and LDW was a bit more so it ment we was RTOM limited.
I know this is a silly question to some, and proberly very easy to work out but fuel tankering can be very easy or go horribly wrong if you uplifted to much!
Any advice would be appreciated,
Thank you.