condorflyer

hi from a newbie , 'fraid i don't the Virgin route . 'Tho it was a regular run for me with another operator ! We often followed Virgin 7 or 8 or they followed us . Route varied every day to get advantage of min. head winds / max tailwinds . Have an old flt plan here for 1/8/09 . Lhr - Lax . Its very representative . flt time 10.12 , 4863 nm . 12 kts tailwind . flt plan burn 104920 kgs . alternate Ontario ( california Kont ) tot. tanks 116177 kgs . that was for a payload ( pax and cargo of 46.8 tonnes . ) cost index 0 . planned remaining fuel 10.2 tonnes . Due to old age / not wife but family on board took nearly 118 tonnes in tanks ! Rte 27R - sid wobun 2f 6000ft- wobun- clb Fl 300- Tnt -pol- tla -stn - ratsu ( n 061 degrees w 10 degrees ) clb fl320 - n65 w 20 -n67w30 - n67w40 - n67w50 - n65 1/2degeesw70 - clb fl340 - n63 1/2w80 - n60 1/2w90 - yyq -n56w100 - clb fl360 - vln - ggw - bil -ffu - mlf - bld - hec - riivr 2 arrival to 24r or 25l ... ( a bit right hand down at hec and loc on ils ! ) planned spd was slower than norm due to tailwind en-route ( head wind is normal on west bound atlantic ) i.e. Mach .82 to bil then .83 on dep we had zfw ( zero fuel wt ..ie a/c plus payload ) 238tonnes , tow (take off wt ) 354 , law (landing wt ) 250 . wx fine on arrival , so on the back of a fag packet , arrival fuel planning was when fuel got to 8.4 tonnes ; atc were to be told we needed an approach pronto ... that gave us 2 t to make app . if we missed it and went around then another 2t for 2nd app . landing of that gave us 4.4 t ..... the legal min of 30 mins fuel ... below that was a mayday ! hope that helps , if its Pmdg 747-400 it should all plug in , if not you can find the lat and longs on map which will also give the vors ... Good luck .. shud be daylight all way if you set out at midday uk time . rgds