User manual

PFPX - Professional Flight Planner X
Aerosoft GmbH 2013
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To add a fuel policy, provide a unique name and remarks for the record.
The minimum required fuel amount usually consists of Trip fuel (Fuel
burn from origin to destination) plus reserves, if deviations should occur.
These reserves can be expressed as:
• minutes of normal cruise fuel consumption (NCFC)
• minutes holding 1500 feet above planned destination/destinati-
on alternate airport
• percentage of trip fuel
• percentage of trip time at normal cruise fuel consumption
• percentage of trip time holding 1500 feet above planned desti-
nation/destination alternate airport
• a fixed amount in kilograms
• a fixed amount in pounds (lbs)