ATPL Flight Planning Question

[brendan26]

Goodmorning,
Just a quick question relating to this great subject.
- When planning a decent in a flight plan do you add the 400kg for fuel for approach and landing eg on decent from FL330 the fuel burnt in decent is 670kg do we then add the 400 to make it 1070kg? if we are landing at the location?
Also
e.g say a flight from Perth to Brisbane was made and we had FF of say 12000kg then we add 3300kg for NO reserve and 1200VR + the 250 for taxi at the Perth and shutdown at Brisbane. do we then add the 400kg?

[mugzy]

Hi there.

I think the only time you do not need to add the 400kg of fuel to the plan is when the question states that you are to conduct a "straight in approach".

Otherwise add 400kg for the approach.

[Ozzie Mozzie]

mugzy is right about approach fuel.

re your 250kg S/T + T/S, often the question will give you a starting weight which is a Brakes Release Weight (BRW), which will have already burnt your 150kg start up fuel, so you only need to add 100kg for taxi and shutdown. If the question gives you a weight at the ramp or fuel at engine start up or something like that then you have to factor in the whole 250kg

[Damien1989]

If question specifies flight fuel, the 400kg for approach has already been considered as it is part of the estimated fuel burnt in flight.

Eg fuel on board at startup w/ flight fuel requirement of 12000kg normal ops

12000x1.1 + 3300 +250 = 16750