Thread: bingo fuel
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Old 04-08-2010, 11:36 AM
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Bingo is a military term, and in no way means anything to ATC.

To answer your question, we use Bingo in the Navy to determine the point at which we need to divert or RTB. For instance, if we're operating on the ship, and the closest divert is 200 miles, flying an emergency fuel profile to cover that distance and land with X pounds of gas requires Y pounds of gas.

So we have a line in the sand, if you're not aboard, plugged into a tanker, etc by Y (or Bingo) you divert. Period. You put the divert on the nose, squawk 7700, and fly your max range profile.

On a day to day basis we use Bingo as our line in the sand to knock off whatever training we're doing and come RTB, to land with usually SOP minimum fuel on deck. So given the distance of whatever area we're working in, will determin our bingo fuel to RTB. That is also NOT an emergency profile, we plan that bingo at normal cruise, on a normal rtb route.
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