GaryMcCl 17 Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Hi. I've had a couple of issues with fuel planning lately. I use SimBrief and Aerosoft Airbus X Fuel Planner for planning. On the flight in the attached pic, you can see that I am flying from EGLL to LIPZ in an A319. I've been told to use the BLOCK FUEL in the SimFuel, which is the system tells me should be 5959 - despite the Airbus planner giving me a figure of roughly 8500. I have flown a couple of flights and found that SimBrief seems to be *a bit* better, but the answer is in the middle. Why are they so far apart? I've both ran out of fuel and been too heavy for landing! Gaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Deputy Sheriffs masterhawk 799 Posted February 7, 2019 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted February 7, 2019 Simbrief is mostlikely using wind data and the correct distance. The fuelplaner takes the direct line from airport to airport, and wind need to be added manually. And there are different fuel burn models behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveCT2003 2553 Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Hello Gary! Here is what I do: 1. Set everything in the Fuel Planner and get the ZFW, 2. Add the correct PAX, Cargo and ZFW to SimBrief, and compute the fuel, 3. Back in the Fuel Planner, adjust values as necessary to match the SimBrief fuel. That will give you something fairly accurate. Best wishes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryMcCl 17 Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 Thanks both of you, I'll give it a go... Gaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypo 3 Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 interesting im flying pre-generated company routes with Real pax number..etc ( VA vEZY ) and using simbrief, but i find very hard to match those with the AS fuel planner. Even if i add every item same as in simbrief or PFPX the fuel planner still gives me some different numbers. Just an idea but maybe add a line where user can edit ZWF rather than individual stuff. So we can easily match those numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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