Boeing 737 Fuel/Throttle/Speed Bug

[Marc]

Hey there

I discovered a funny little bug with the 737 (-900):

When you fly that plane at around >40‘000ft you basically get unlimited fuel. There is nearly 0 fuel consumption even though your throttle is at 100%.

Combining that with another bug, one could fly up to 20-50 hours with that plane. You simply have to click on „Pushback“ before takeoff. Thanks to that you get like an additional 30% of thrust.

I’m currently flying at 51‘500ft at Mach 1.3, throttle at 0%, speed increasing and 20 (!) hours of fuel left. I’m able to fly 10‘500nm with a Boeing 737-900. Another weird thing was that both engines suddenly flamed out at 48‘000ft, but I was able to restart them.

I really don’t think that all those things should be possible. Maybe you devs should look into this to figure out whats wrong here.

[skotshi]

B739 Ultra Long Haul incomming. lol. Do you have a liveflight link for us?

[ErikC17]

Nah its fine. Its just the 737-900 that is having a party now that the 737-9Max has just gotten its typerating. It should be back to normal in a few days.

Thats really not how the 737-900 should be acting

[Royce]

Well, time to set some records.

[Marc]

I don’t. I just wanted to see how far I could push it with this bug after I discovered it by accident in an earlier flight. I don’t like using bugs which are giving me am advantage in a game, so I stopped the flight soon after I wrote that report here.

[skotshi]

Why should this be an advantage? But you gotta say - EGLL-YSSY with a B739… That’s cool

[Marc]

It is. Not very realistic though :D

[dush19]

Combining that with another bug, one could fly up to 20-50 hours with that plane. You simply have to click on „Pushback“ before takeoff. Thanks to that you get like an additional 30% of thrust.

I’m currently flying at 51‘500ft at Mach 1.3, throttle at 0%, speed increasing and 20 (!) hours of fuel left. I’m able to fly 10‘500nm with a Boeing 737-900. Another weird thing was that both engines suddenly flamed out at 48‘000ft, but I was able to restart them.

@MishaCamp guess what YSSY-EGLL on a B738?

[Marc]

Ok, just for the record: I said earlier that I don’t like using bugs like that. But I got bored and wanted to see what’s the maximum distance I can get with that plane. I wanted to push it as far as possible. That bug definitely needs to be fixed. :D

I don’t know if that’s also possible with other airplanes too. The Pushback bug exists on every plane though.