kadochen
10th Oct 2014, 14:48
This might be a silly question and I kind of can anticipate the laughter and answers some of you will be posting. I'd nevertheless appreciate a hand:
You got a B738, a full load of pax and 50% of cargo capacity used on a flight that's taking 180 minutes, or 3 h. The bird is anticipated to use up 8.250 tons of fuel block to block. Now, let's say you get an additional cargo load which will result in 60% of the cargo capacity being used. my question is:
All other conditions, i.e. winds/temp aloft, flight levels, time to destination etc being equal,is there a linear correlation between the increase of the cargo load and the increase in fuel burn? In other words, does 10% + cargo result in 10 % + fuel burn? Maybe less? Is there, besides using standard aircraft performance calculation tools, a way to interpolate more or less accurately, or is it prominently dependant on aircraft types?
Thanks a lot for your thoughts.
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You got a B738, a full load of pax and 50% of cargo capacity used on a flight that's taking 180 minutes, or 3 h. The bird is anticipated to use up 8.250 tons of fuel block to block. Now, let's say you get an additional cargo load which will result in 60% of the cargo capacity being used. my question is:
All other conditions, i.e. winds/temp aloft, flight levels, time to destination etc being equal,is there a linear correlation between the increase of the cargo load and the increase in fuel burn? In other words, does 10% + cargo result in 10 % + fuel burn? Maybe less? Is there, besides using standard aircraft performance calculation tools, a way to interpolate more or less accurately, or is it prominently dependant on aircraft types?
Thanks a lot for your thoughts.
:ok: