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Hi Guys,I posted yesterday to glean some info regarding the endurance of the 747-400.Well I now have settled upon a route of flight, namely EGLL-YSSY.Now before you stop me, I know this is pushing it, but I've decided to see if I can replicate the Longreach delivery flight, I am quite prepared for (and indeed expecting) to not quite make it. What I'm trying to do is determine just how far this bird will fly while following THE MOST EFFICIENT operating practices.This is where I need your help. Sam, Qavion, anyone else who has a good knowledge of long-haul flying and the workings of the 747, please step up to the podium!Here are the questions I have so far.INITIAL CLIMBOUT: What is the most fuel-efficient climb technique? CLB, CLB 1 or CLB 2? With or without the 250 knot speed restriction?CLIMB: Are the default speeds for the climb the most efficient ones? Or is there a more efficient climb speed to aim for?CRUISE: Is the LRC mode in the FMC really the best max range speed? Or is this only a rough guide?STEP CLIMB: Is ICAO profile the best way to do steps, or is stepping in increments of 2,000 feet better? When stepping, what is the most efficient way to do this without increasing the fuel burn too dramatically? Using VNAV or VS with a really low rate of climb selected?OTHER: Any other hints that will make the difference?My routing is pretty much bang on a Great Circle route, so there's not much I can do to tighten up there. Taking a zero cargo load and 6 pax representing the duty crew and a representative passenger or two to represent the baggage carried!Look forward to hearing from you guys on this (ludicrous) plan!


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Couple of points that may help you, the following is from the FMC manual:1.Cost index is calculated as the aircraftoperating cost divided by fuel cost. [($/houraircraft operating cost) / (Fuel Cost inCents/Pound)] A cost index of 00 will resultin the maximum cost economy, with slowclimb rates, maximum range cruise and slowdescent speeds predicted by the FMC inorder to minimize fuel burn. A high costindex will result in higher climb, cruise anddescent speeds. The cost index is designedto provide a relative index of the cost ofaircraft operation vs. time en-route.2.STEP SIZE: The planned altitude step sizeis displayed in line 5R. The FMC will defaultto a standard ICAO step size of 2000 feet.This will result in proper cruise altitudeclearance being maintained (e.g. odd flightlevels while east bound, even flight levelswhile west bound.)The crew may override the STEP SIZE byentering any value as a four digit multiple of1000 from 0 to 9000. Entering a 0 value willresult in no step climbs being made. If nosteps are planned, it is important that 0 beentered in this field in order to accuratelypredict fuel consumption.The next really important issue is the weather RE: headwinds V tailwind component. I can can highly recommend FS flight keeper mainly for the ACARS that comes with the program, the ACARS allows you to download the weather (winds aloft being of most interest) while you are flying among a long list of other flight parameters. Finally download a flight plan that is relevent to the weather for the day that you fly, just as is done in real life. Best of luck with this flight, I for one would be interested in how it goes :)CheersPete :)

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>STEP CLIMB: Is ICAO profile the best way to do steps, or is>stepping in increments of 2,000 feet better?Your best bet here would be to climb each time the optimum cruise level goes up 100 feet. As well as starting at your optimum cruise level. Keep in mind, you can't enter the step of 100 feet, but will have to watch it and go up each time it changes.Yes, it will be hard to do, but that will give you the best chance of reaching Sydney. (At least the way I understand it it would.)Good luck. Don't forget to update us when you are making the flight. :)

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Mike's idea of using the smallest step size you can in climbing may be a good idea. I am not sure if they did this in real life or not.

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Mark, your best bet is max climb thrust and climb at max rate (approx cost index 0) and cruise descend at cost index 0. Even a flap 10 takeoff if possible will assist. I am not sure what you are using for wind info but this may be critical. Failing that keep to optimum altitude wherever possible. It will change at about 8 min per 100 ft. This is going to be difficult to accieve over the duration of the flight. I suggest 500 ft step climbs which will give you about 40 min per climb. Of course you are going to need to set an alarm during the night time!!! If it gets really tight later on shut and eng down!!!CheersSteve


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>A cost index of 00 will result>in the maximum cost economy>Finally download a flight plan that is relevent to the weather>for the day that you fly, just as is done in real life.Two most important tips are above.Great Circle flying is usually NOT the most optimum route when flying in the presence of real-life winds.Michael J.http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/for...argo_hauler.gifhttp://sales.hifisim.com/pub-download/asv6-banner-beta.jpg

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I'll be intersted to see how this operation is going to go should you go through with it!CheersRudy

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I'll definitely be doing it. :-)Though I should point out the route itself is more of a context to the exercise than the objective of the exercise itself, I'm actually carrying out the flight to determine whether a planning application I am currently programming is accurate.I doubt I will make it, as Steve points out, winds are very relevant and this will likely make the difference between Sydney and - say - Manila!Not sure when I'll do this but most likely will be this weekend.


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> If it gets really tight later on shut and eng down!!!Really?! Bet Boeing doesn't have that in the QRH.That's quite funny. Last thing I'd have thought of doing.


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>>I am not sure if they did this>>in real life or not.>>Not in real life.Funny you say that, because I got that info from a BA captain.

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hope this will give a good idea about flying ...i tested the computer with real datas and what i found is that don thave the weather for today ops but this is what i found in my archives hope this help ...see youFLT PLAN: EGLL/YSSY MACH:M85 A/C: /B744 ETD: 28/19.00ZORG EGLL DEST YSSY FUEL TIME CORR TOGWT LDGWT AVG W/CDEST YSSY 353686 17.57 ------ 755241 401638 P039RESV 007753 00.30 ------ALTN 008766 00.28 ------ ALTN YSCB DIST 0133 W/C M006HOLD 008982 00.30 ------REQD 379187 19.25 ------ BOW 370500 PAYLOAD 000000EXTRA 005637 00.22 ------TAXI 000083TTL AT BO 384824 19.52 ------ RTE MAN DIST 9371EGLL DVR6K DVR UG1 KONAN UL607 SPI UZ714 BOMBI UL984 NM UB493 REPLI UM991 VILUR B494 URML B119 BUMAR UB119 NAMAS B143 KRS A240 AFGAN UV838 ROSIE V838 ZB G202N BI DCT MURLI DCT TIGER B209 KKJ UM501 JH W49 BBS UM501 PUT B579 VPL W531 VIH R325 VJR G579 SJ A576 KAT W368 RIC YSSYEGLL/0350/KOROP/0370/VILUR/0364/BUMAR/0370/METKA/0364/RANAH/0370/VIH/0410CHKPNT LAT LONG TEMP TROP LEG ELAP------ -------- --------- ---- ---- DIST DIST FUEL MAG SR ---- ----- USED FLOW FREQ FL WIND CRS HDG AIRWAY TAS GS TIME TIME REMN /ENGS------ --- ----- --- --- ------ --- --- ---- ----- ------ -----EGLL N51 28.7 W000 27.7 9371 000083. . . 384741DET N51 18.2 E000 35.8 CLB CLB 03 041 0041 008794117.30 CLB 25050 108 114 DCT 328 369 0.08 00.08 376030 62490DVR N51 09.8 E001 21.6 CLB CLB 00 030 0071 011401114.95 CLB 24077 109 117 DCT 453 504 0.04 00.12 373423 44695KONAN N51 07.9 E002 00.0 CLB CLB 00 024 0095 013391 CLB 24077 097 103 UG1 489 550 0.02 00.14 371433 45774KOK N51 05.7 E002 39.1 CLB CLB 02 025 0120 014853114.50 CLB 25075 097 102 UL607 495 560 0.03 00.17 369971 33198TOC CLB CLB 04 036 0156 016969 CLB 25066 108 113 UL607 489 546 0.04 00.21 367855 31662REMBA N50 39.7 E004 54.8 M51 33 04 053 0209 019467 350 26059 108 112 UL607 494 544 0.06 00.27 365357 25452SPI N50 30.9 E005 37.4 M53 33 03 029 0238 020810113.10 350 26049 109 111 UL607 492 537 0.03 00.30 364014 25347BOMBI N50 03.4 E008 48.0 M53 34 02 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The biggest challenge to fuel planning is to match the MSFS environment the airplane will be encountering to the data you initially load into the FMC as your preflight setup. You can tell if you are going to make it just by loading the flight plan into the FMC and checking landing fuel. If you have any left, you made it!For instance, the FMC assumes zero winds and standard ISA. If the sim provides that environment, the FMC

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>Funny you say that, because I got that info from a BA>captain.Not sure what this captain told you. Using 100 ft step climb (or even less) would definitely result in most efficient climb but ATC practically never allows you to do things like that. In other words they don't look kindly at someone who is spending lots of time between the regular flight levels while technically at the cruise phase. Michael J.http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/for...argo_hauler.gifhttp://sales.hifisim.com/pub-download/asv6-banner-beta.jpg

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