Today i was flying a default 737 repaint from honolulu to fiji. A total of 2700 nm. The default 737 has a range of 3000 nm so what is going on. I ran out of fuel and crashed about 1000 nm away from nadi.  Someone explain this to me.

Are you using weather? Headwinds?

 

Altitude?

 

Cruise setting (about Mach .78 or so)?

 

Gear retracted?

 

Flaps up?

 

Flying at optimum altitude for weight of aircraft?

 

Lots of reasons.

Today i was flying a default 737 repaint from honolulu to fiji. A total of 2700 nm. The default 737 has a range of 3000 nm so what is going on. I ran out of fuel and crashed about 1000 nm away from nadi.  Someone explain this to me.

Yes Sir, same problem for me on even shorter hops. I went into the aircraft cfg to fix mine. I just changed the ratio of fuel the aircraft burns. 

Osp!

 

https://www.google.ca/#q=distance+from+honolulu+to+fiji

 

Out of range then.

 

Cheers,

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The default flight dynamics are a bit dodgy.

 

Try one of the freeware 737 packages out there. They mostly use the POSKY/TDS exterior 737 models which come with a custom, better FDE, but still retain the VC of the default 738.

The default configuration burns fuel unrealistically.  To correct, edit your aircraft.cfg file with a text editor such as notepad.exe.  In the section titled [GeneralEngineData] change the value of fuel_flow_scalar to 0.7392197.  In the section titled [TurbineEngineData] change the value of ThrustSpecificFuelConsumption to 0.4.  Save the file.  

The default configuration burns fuel unrealistically.  To correct, edit your aircraft.cfg file with a text editor such as notepad.exe.  In the section titled [GeneralEngineData] change the value of fuel_flow_scalar to 0.7392197.  In the section titled [TurbineEngineData] change the value of ThrustSpecificFuelConsumption to 0.4.  Save the file.  

Wow, that's where I set mine