Originally Posted by
III Corps
Don't know about the three jets you are talking about but in essence you are talking about max performance and if the max perf numbers are just fiction, what else is just fiction?
On some of the old Boeings I flew, numbers were very important.
And are you bragging that you don't have a flt manual?
Just wondering. Most interesting.
Great - but were not talking about old Boeings here.
We have flight planning services, ultra-nav, EFB-Prob, etc...and common sense. I know, whippersnappers who dont really know how the charts work..
We can quickly come up with a max (or slightly more conservative actually) numbers and go from there. No mistakes made, no lines drawn wrong. Ever watch the average pilot struggle through the useless exercise the sim centers drag ya through during recurrent? I'd say the spread of answers in the average recurrent is about 50% +/- what the real number is.
Anyone who thinks people sit there and whip out OEM graphs and rulers in their 7X, GLEX, or G550 has likely never flown one.
Tuna - where do you get your bizarre numbers? 20% more fuel? Its much higher than that, closer to 35%.
Geo - your mx numbers are way off. Wait until a 7X comes up on a C check - based on the multiple X factors A/B checks are coming in at it will be downright scary. Falcon has recently completely halted offering FalconCare on 7Xs until they can grasp what these costs are. Those that got in on FalconCare have added huge value to their planes on the market.
Now...get back to flightsim boys!