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Old 28th Apr 2017, 13:05
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KayPam
 
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I pass 33, 81 and 21 this morning.

However, there was an inconsistency in flight planning.

It said that contingency fuel should be 5% of the trip fuel, in the question.
However, we were given the cruise consumption of the aircraft and I was able to calculate that 5% of the trip fuel corresponded to 3 minutes of cruise consumption.

I thought there was a minimum of 5' fuel consumption for contingency ?

In this case, should we believe the question and consider that contingency is 5%, or apply the rules and consider it's 5' ?

Thanks
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