I’ve been flying the 757–200 as a C-32, and while it has the correct livery, the performance doesn’t quite match the actual aircraft. The weights, fuel capacity, and other capabilities differ, which makes it challenging to simulate accurate mission profiles.
Is there currently a way to adjust these parameters in the simulator? Or are there plans to implement this feature in the future to allow for more accurate variant customization?
Any advice or workarounds for tailoring aircraft performance would be greatly appreciated!
@John_Humphreys unfortunately not. There are a lot of inaccuracies in the simulator, ranging from performance to environment. We can only hope that the devs address these issues and work on patching them in the next major update.
I also realize this since it runs out of fuel and drops out of the sky way before it should. Not Good! Nor is it accurate for what is the queen of the skies…
Just curious, what type of missions are you flying? The infinite flight 757 performs and flies for pretty much exactly the amount of time it does in real life. Also keep in mind there is no c-32 in infinite flight technically, it is just a livery on the 757-200.
There multiple ways to improve simbrief calculations. Here are some that I use:
Fuel Factor
If your having fuel problems you can offsets the amount of fuel Simbrief uses to calculate by a constant.
You can do this by going to airframes > aircraft perfomance > then click on fuel factor. Use this option to increase or decrease the amount of fuel SimBrief calculates.
For example, if you routinely burn 5% more fuel than what SimBrief plans with this aircraft, try using a fuel factor of “P05”.
It is hard to know exactly which fuel factor to use so try experiment with it by loading a flight plan and comparing the block fuel on SimBrief with actual fuel loaded. If the fuel loaded is under projected block fuel the increase the fuel factor (This means moving upwards eg. M05 to M02). If the fuel loaded is more than 2.5 hours then decrease the fuel factor. (This means moving downwards eg. P00 to M05.
Aerolopa
Aerolopa is a website that gives real-life aircraft configurations for every airline thus giving you passenger number passengers you should use
Simply go to https://www.aerolopa.com and look for the airline you want to fly as and choose add the number of seats to get the total passengers. This is necessary to give accurate passenger numbers as SimBrief sometimes fully boards aircraft which compromises fuel and cargo