Apologies for yet another 737 thread. I'm struggling with importing the load data from Simbrief for pretty much every flight. As an example, Simbrief calculates 13,000lbs of fuel, but every time I import it 737 keeps it at around 25,100. Anyone else? 

I would be interested to hear the answer as well. I believe it doesn't load fuel, at least at the moment I fill up and load airplane manually based on simbrief values

It does not.  Read last night on the official forum you can empty the bird and save that state with your default panel state so each spawn you are cold, dark and empty.

 

20 minutes ago, Drumcode said:

Apologies for yet another 737 thread. I'm struggling with importing the load data from Simbrief for pretty much every flight. As an example, Simbrief calculates 13,000lbs of fuel, but every time I import it 737 keeps it at around 25,100. Anyone else? 

Simbrief tells you how much fuel you need, it's up to you to load it. Same as it's up to you to load the payload.

 

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Wrong expectation on my end. Manual load it is. Thanks for the feedback. 

1 hour ago, badgenes said:

you can empty the bird and save that state with your default panel state so each spawn you are cold, dark and empty

That's a great idea. I load fuel (as well as passengers and baggage) using the fuel truck option in the ground services menu. Usually add around 500kg to the Simbrief planned fuel in case of some MSFS ATC chaos. 

Lol... cold, dark and empty. Sounds terrible when those words are put together 😅

7 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Lol... cold, dark and empty. Sounds terrible when those words are put together 😅

It sure does...very ominous sounding...lol. Last night I watched a good tutorial stream where the streamer brought in an actual 737 pilot that flies for Ryan Air. The tutorial started with cold and dark and went all the way through a short flight and shutdown. During the setup, on the subject of fuel, the Ryan Air pilot said, as far as their SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) goes, they add the fuel in from their briefing to include alternate routing and such, rounding up to the nearest 100, and then they add in another 100 Kg on top of that to cover unforeseen circumstances like being stopped on the taxiway for a longer delay, or other various potential small delays. I am sure simmers across the board probably use similar systems to plan their extra fuel load, but I thought it was interesting. 

3 hours ago, badgenes said:

you can empty the bird and save that state

How do you actually do this? Not the empty the bird part but the saving the state part?

EDIT: Saved a panel state named "colddarkempty" in the PMDG setup menu. So next time I load a flight, I go to that menu and load that panel state, right?

EDIT 2: See that it's possible to choose a startup state. I guess I answered my own question. 

EDIT 3: Amazed that the RTFM folks haven't attacked me yet! I have actually gone through the 118 page introduction manual. Well perhaps I've browsed through it..

Edited May 13, 20224 yr by Cpt_Piett