Edit: You may have heard the Max can travel in IF for 15 hrs, but what if I told you it could go way beyond that? I encourage everyone to experiment with this on the 737 MAX. Go to cruising altitude, extend to flaps 40 (should lower power and fuel flow if done right), and keep climbing as much as your throttle will allow without stalling and losing airspeed. Make sure your fuel flow is greater than 0 lbs/hr or your entire aircraft will shut off. Let me know what you think.
Apparently, extending flaps during cruise improves fuel efficiency so much that you can do this broken nonsense right here. Found it extremely funny. Currently burning less fuel than a Cessna rn 💀.
Btw, if you hit 0 lbs/hr, the aircraft’s systems completely shut off. You need to fire up the APU again and restart engines if you want to regain control. I’ve experienced this twice on my journey 😬😬
If it didn’t do that, it would’ve been the peak of everything. Truly an “infinite” flight moment. But on a serious note, the devs gotta fix this. That performance is too crazy with the flaps. They’re supposed to increased drag and burn more fuel with higher n1 percentages. Still mind-boggling it could get this high. Imma keep abusing it.
If I didn’t have a life, I’d break the world record with longest flight without refueling. With a fuel burn of 7.5 gallons an hour, it could fly for 40 days straight. Realistically though the aircraft would get lighter so the fuel burn with decreased, which would consequently add more range. You could probably fly for a year straight if you tried 😆
