Your best fuel/cost savings tips
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Your best fuel/cost savings tips
Hey fellow pilots!
What are your best tips for saving fuel/costs at your companies? It'd probably be a good idea to exchange ideas, not only to reduce costs but also our impact on mother earth.
What are your best tips for saving fuel/costs at your companies? It'd probably be a good idea to exchange ideas, not only to reduce costs but also our impact on mother earth.
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I beleive the guys working for the low cost would be an expert at it, otherwise In the Airbus FCOM , there is a “green procedure” Chapter which give you all the tips and tricks how to be fuel efficient. In a nutshell: Single engine taxi In & Out with minimum braking, Climb at CI zero (EasyJet Procedure), Optimum cruise alt, Idle power as long as possible during descent, Delay the configuration as much as possible and lowest flaps setting for the approach.
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Don't run the APU either. You can then either freeze or sweat your bollocks off while the management come up with more great initiatives from their air conditioned offices....
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- minimise APU usage whenever feasible (opt for ground power / ext. Air cond)
- minimise taxi time (intersection takeoff)
- use the most favourable runway according to your departure direction (this one deserves a little more discussion as there are quite a few threats associated to it)
- use company provided CI
- directs
- optimum levels
- short approaches
- low drag/low noise approaches
- idle reverse
- one engine taxi
etc..
not only to reduce costs but also our impact on mother earth.
if you burn 30,000lbs of fossile fuel during your trip you really think 300lbs matters?
Its just a feel good maneuver. Virtue signaling.
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When the savings of fuel cost go into the pockets of the operating pilots, then sure exchange ideas.
Those air conditioned offices have the power on all hours of the day and night. Coward Street in Sydney, Waterside and Cathay Pacific city hum along all day and night. When the administrative staff and executives turn the air conditioning off to save carbon then they can be taken as serious. Until then they continue to stuff pilot savings in their fat pockets.
Pilots carry what they need, do what they consider is safe and that is why the PIC carries strict liability.
Don't run the APU either. You can then either freeze or sweat your bollocks off while the management come up with more great initiatives from their air conditioned offices....
Pilots carry what they need, do what they consider is safe and that is why the PIC carries strict liability.
The usual ones to name a few :
- minimise APU usage whenever feasible (opt for ground power / ext. Air cond)
- minimise taxi time (intersection takeoff)
- use the most favourable runway according to your departure direction (this one deserves a little more discussion as there are quite a few threats associated to it)
- use company provided CI
- directs
- optimum levels
- short approaches
- low drag/low noise approaches
- idle reverse
- one engine taxi
etc..
- minimise APU usage whenever feasible (opt for ground power / ext. Air cond)
- minimise taxi time (intersection takeoff)
- use the most favourable runway according to your departure direction (this one deserves a little more discussion as there are quite a few threats associated to it)
- use company provided CI
- directs
- optimum levels
- short approaches
- low drag/low noise approaches
- idle reverse
- one engine taxi
etc..
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I think exactly the same way.... but
My company got a 100 a/c , I only hope that no one does the maths...
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On a narrow body you can safe up to 15kgs if you land with a reduced flap setting. A gear up landing will safe even more I guess!
Why is that technique not in the above mentioned green operating chapter?
Why is that technique not in the above mentioned green operating chapter?