Airbus confuses endurance and range

[divinehover]

This is a cut and paste off the Airbus website.

A higher takeoff weight capability of 238 tonnes has been developed by Airbus for the A330-200 with no increase in the aircraft’s empty weight – giving it an endurance of 7,250 nautical miles or an additional 3.4 tonnes of payload.

Surely endurance is only related to time and range to distance. Could Airbus have got this wrong?

[Fat Clemenza]

fella u must really be bored to open a thread for a typo on a website

[Capn Bloggs]

They are French, after all. :}

[divinehover]

It was either that or go for a run :)

[Rj111]

What is the endurance of a jet airliner typically? Can it stay in the air much longer than it's range/cruise speed?

[kwateow]

As an example, an early A300 would have been able to hold for 10 hrs (max endurance) i.e. much longer than it could manage in normal operation.

[Rj111]

Interesting, thanks.

[guiones]

Go run :ugh:

G

[Mary P.]

Might have just been a translation typo.

Having said that Airbus has surprised me before: Vls, for example stands for "lowest selectable speed". Really? You don't select a speed, you set it. If anything it should be "lowest set-able speed"

Not that I expect the frogs to grasp the subtle difference between "selecting" versus "setting" something, however the translators should have known better.

Try to change it now...impossible.

Mary

[de facto]

MARy,

Start jogging,fast:E

[Old Fella]

Mary, surely you are being just a little pedantic? Selectors can be used to SET speeds, headings etc etc. e.g. AutoThrottle Speed Selector used to set the desired speed, Heading Selector used to set the desired heading, Altitude Select control used to set desired altitude in a Cabin Pressure controller etc etc. Who really cares whether we "set" or "select" such as above so long as the correct numbers appear?

[kwateow]

Airbus doesn't employ an army of translators, it's not the European Parliament.

It does employ a lot of Spanish, Germans, French and Brits. These folks write this stuff in English. Some are better than others.

And no, it doesn't employ an army of proof-readers either.