I was trying to fly Sydney LAX route on A380 with airplanes configured under heavy category.But due to fuel shortage I couldn’t reach the destination twice.Cruising attitude was set at FL30.Earlier I have flown Delhi-SFO 18 hour flight on 777-200LR without any problem of fuel.A380 is the ultra long haul aircraft and this problem shouldn’t have happened.Did I made any mistake or wht should I have done different?
I tried flying the A380 yesterday on OMDB-KSFO route yesterday.
Again, I was short by 450 nautical miles.
I was climbing with a vertical speed of 500, cruising altitude at 38000 feet with a cruising speed at Mach 0.84
My friend for simplicity, I would install FlightRadar 24. Once you do that, search for the route using an origin airport and destination airport. I just checked and Emirates operate this route with their a380. Once you do this, click onto the flight number of the route. After this, press the little drop down menu and all flight information including FLIGHT TIME is displayed. To calculate your fuel, add the flight time’s worth of fuel + an additional 1 hour and 30 minutes worth of fuel in reserve into your Infinite Flight sim.
Your fuel only serve 13 hours 42 minutes, was that 100% already? OMDB - KSFO should be 15 hours and a half. With 30 minutes spare your fuel should put estimated 16 hours of fuel.
Proper planning will account for every variable described here. I do ultra long hauls often while I’m working my 12 hour shifts (naturally means I can’t perform step climbs) and have no issues with landing an A388 having only expended my trip and taxi fuel.
Im doing another one for tomorrow’s shift. So tell you what. Find a real life A388 route (and please make sure we have the livery for the airline that operates that route, I’m particular about that) that takes at least 14 hours to complete in the real world. Let me know what that flight number is and I will show you step by step the planning I do for the route and the results of the flight. Or I guess any aircraft will do.