Fuel Flow/Burn
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I’m also seeing far less fuel consumption than predicted by the default SimBrief profile for the -300. Is there a reference somewhere we can use to figure out whether the simulation or the SimBrief profile is wrong?
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@systemdefault I've seen the same thing, but with the old simbrief profile from a few days ago. I'll try the new one tomorrow.
But there is a big element that aircraft programmers must be having nightmares about, which is that MSFS still has a major issue with increasing drag with airspeed, and the corresponding affect of engine power on speed (and corresponding fuel flow and consumption).
Example from just this evening, in the BAE146, you might be cruising along with throttles at 70%, and you realize you are doing 290 KIAS, and slowly accelerating. You back off the throttle just a hair, like down to 69%. Look at your airspeed 10 minutes later, and you've slowed down to 200 knots.
It's teven worse with Aerosoft's CRJ (which also does not have an autothrottle) - you are constantly having to manually adjust the throttles - either you are heading into overspeed, or the slightest adjustment will slow you down to the point you can't even maintain altitude.
After nearly 2 years, I hope Asobo is looking at fixing this. According to their priority list, popcorn clouds seem more important than a monumental failure in flight dynamics.
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@dreadnought1906 interestingly though this doesn’t seem to be an issue with with WT CJ4.
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What do the profile options mean?
LIke... High Speed I assume is is maximum Thrust (using VS or IAS mode)? Long Range I guess is a lower power climb (ie 500-1000fpm). For descent I guess High Speed it essentially just an idle throttle high FPM descent over a shorter distance while Long Range is just that, idle or near idle descent over a much larger distance than the High Speed one?
For Cruise profiles, M70 is just maintain Mach .70 I guess, not to hard to work out. MCR is setting the TMS to Max Cruise Thrust, and just flooring it and riding the barber pole? LRC is low power cruise for max distance, like I'm guess .5 Mach or something?
Would be nice to get more information on what these meant, haha.
I haven't really had the issue with maintaining speed like some folks here have mentioned. It can be a little fiddly at the start with initial cruise, but after that its generally fine, usually letting me wander away or watch some Youtube while flying along.
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@melon Unfortunately some parts of SimBrief at a black box, profiles like that included. As far as I'm aware users can't change or add those profiles, and I made an OFP with the High Speed climb and Descent profiles and didn't get anything helpful for figuring out what my speeds should be.
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@dreadnought1906 Indeed, same annoying behavior. Engine N1 increases as we build up more speed, therefore generating more thrust, but without drag increase, meaning the speed just tend to increase slowly but exponentially if we do not find the exact sweet spot where speed is stable.
It is hard if not impossible to be accurate with speed between 250 and 300KIAS. As long as I am in that range, I don't touch the throttle otherwise it'll either slow down to 200 or overspeed lol
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@plhought The new profile at least for the -100 variant, is better, but not by much.
On my most recent flight from KDAL to KLEX with 50 pax, no cargo, at FL270:
Old Simbrief (B463 profile with adjusted weights to work with -100) Trip Fuel : 9052 lbs
New B461 profile Trip Fuel: 8476 lbs
Actual fuel used: (Gate to gate): 5452 lbsSo still way off, and frankly I think the Simbrief profile is not the problem - the sim is. If the sim's fuel burn is accurate, that means the -100 has around 3,500 nm effective range. I don't f'ing think so.
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@dreadnought1906 Guys, I found a trick that seems to solve the problem of trying to micro-control your throttle lever at cruise.
Set the TMS to TGT (target) mode, and enter 600 in the TGT window. The system will try to maintain all engines at that power setting. I found that 600 results in a cruise speed somewhere between 255 and 260 KIAS. And it's pretty stable. I'm lightly loaded and have to experiment with higher settings, but this is a nice discovery for me.
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@dreadnought1906 Another Simbrief performance reference:
Flight from KEUG to CYVR. Simbrief ordered 34,000 feet, so that's what I did. Can the -100 really fly that high? Anyway...
Simbrief Trip Fuel: 4973 lbs, plus 500 for Taxi
Actual: 3057 lbs Gate-to-gate, including 461 for taxi, so 2596 flight usage.
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@dreadnought1906 this is a genius solution. I’ll give it a try. Thank you.
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@dreadnought1906 Simbrief is weird. It likes to order me to the service ceiling of basically everything I fly, including this at 30,000ft. The pressurization panel won't let me set much above 29,000, if that, so I've been doing FL280.
I wonder if our fuel burns are off in the plane, though. I keep setting 840 as the TGT in the TMS but I never get anywhere near it, even with wide open throttles.
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@dreadnought1906 this solution unfortunately doesn't always work - in the lower flight levels in colder-than-ISA conditions, the 600 (lowest possible value) will still bring you to overspeed.
Something is definitely wrong in the flight model...
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I've just been using 820 TGT, which is what it defaults too. Where does it say to use 840? I know in the tutorial video he used that.
And yeah, that new profile it's been wanting me to fly at 31000 the last couple flights but you can't put the cabin that high, and the plane kind of struggles to reach that altitude anyway. 26-28,000 seem ideal.
Off the top of my head I think at cruise my TGT has been like 650 or so??
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@melon between the manual and the video it says 840. I've been trying to find a guide to setting it anywhere, all I can find is that 840 because it's down from the max continuous value of 857, but like I said I don't even think I break 800 at any point.
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My last flight I was showing a Turbine Gas Temperature of about 650 in cruise.
You can dial in a new value via the thumb wheel to fine tune your speed. Only adjust the 10’s digit though as moving the hundreds digit will kick you off of TGT mode (you can re-enable it) -
So far, flying Adelaide to Sydney, with a TGT set to 645 I've been holding Mach .72 pretty solid at FL280 (1hr 10min so far). I easily reached 840 on take off as well, I don't think that has been a problem for me so far afaik (previously had been using 820).
Started with 7060kg of fuel, each engine is burning about 300kg/hr in cruise, burned 2500kg of fuel total according to the planes own gauges, leaving 4511 in the tanks afterwards. So there is definitely some discrepancy with its accuracy in the plane itself, but I figure that is because of the gauge style. Still According to this I should be able to fly back to Adelaide and nearly back to Sydney again, 1800nm total (and this isn't even with a full tank, a full tank is like 9400kg). So it does seem like the numbers a little bit on the low side? Since bad napkin math would put the range at about 2500nm. TBF, I had an average tailwind of like 40knots which would change these numbers a bit, but not that much surely?
