General Guidelines

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Airbus

A318/A319/A320/A321

The Airbus A318/A319/A320/A321 In FSX

General guidelines

Vol

01-03-12

21 October 2015

FUEL PLANNER

Included with the Airbus A318/A319 is a fuel

planning tool. Actually it does a bit more as it also

allows you to load passengers and cargo. The tool

has two main modes, Simple and Advanced. In the

simple mode you can move sliders and set the

amount of passengers and cargo and set the

departure and destination airports.

On normal passenger flights you would most likely

not carry a lot of cargo (the luggage of the

passengers is calculated in the weight of the

passengers). When any of the weights is too high

it will show in red meaning you cannot fly like

that. You will have to loose passengers or cargo!

Keep in mind that flying with a lighter aircraft is

most likely to be more pleasant.

If you want to do a more detailed fuel planning

use the Advanced Mode. Here you got control over far more variables but things are a lot more complex.

After setting the variables you have to push “Generate Loadsheet”. There are two ways to load the data

(passengers, cargo and fuel) to the Airbus. Automatically if “Autoload with aircraft” is ticked or manually

using the MCDU2 LOAD/FUEL menu. The fuel will be loaded correctly, so the center tank will only be used

when the wing tanks are full and the balance of the aircraft will be set correctly.

Note that every airline has got its own layout of seats and additional equipment and every airline got its

own specific rules about fuel load. Even simple things and the Zero Fuel Weight can vary far more than we

expected. What we used is an average of many airlines and might not be spot on for your preferred airline.