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• no adjustment.

In addition to the trip fuel minimum amount, alternate fuel, contingen-

cy/IFR reserve and ﬁnal reserve/holding fuel can also specify required

fuel and minimum/maximum amount using the same choices.

For ETOPS (Extended Range), you have the ability to deﬁne whether the

policy requires a bias percentage for ﬂying to a diversion airport, the

wind error percentage that should be used, whether a single missed

approach at the landing airport should be included, and how the ﬁnal

reserve/holding fuel should be calculated.

Weather

The PFPX weather system records up-to-date worldwide wind data, avi-

ation routine weather reports (METARs) and terminal aerodrome fore-

casts (TAFs). In Auto update mode real-time winds and weather data are

provided regularly from the

PFPX data server.

You may allow PFPX to auto-

update this information as it is

published, load saved weather

data from hard disk, save wea-

ther data to hard disk, and

clear all weather settings from

PFPX if you wish. Loading the

data from hard disk will auto-

matically suspend auto-upda-

ting of the data until you again

choose the auto-update option.

• Click the Weather open-

up button to open up the wea-

ther quick launch and choose

Online will automatically down-

load current winds, METARs and

TAFs from weather server (Re-

quires PFPX Server Subscription)