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2/11/2011 7:33 PM
 

I have been giving some thought about how I would like to setup my instrument configurations on my iFly and it made me think that two or three instruments with fuel calcs would be handy. Is there any possibility of adding instruments with data such as fuel burned, fuel remaining, and estimated fuel required to destination? I would organize these on a SECONDARY configuration that could be checked as needed during the flight.

Obviously, a great deal of responsibility would be on the user to program in fuel data prior to the flight, for each flight. The fuel calcs could be as simple as being based on a single average fuel burn rate.

Or, I could see a more sophisticated version where the GPS would identify when the plane was in a sustained climb, cruise, or sustained descent and could apply a pilot-programmed burn rate for climb/cruise/descent at the appropriate times.

I have only been able to fly with my new iFly once so maybe some or all of this data is available and I just haven't discovered it yet.

Keep up the excellent work! I love what you are doing.

 
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2/15/2011 9:38 AM
 

Interesting ideas. My first impressions is that a fancy fuel burn estimater might be problematic. Even if the pilot perfectly determined & programmed various fuel burn scenarios, winds and temps can introduce big variables, which are unavailable to the iFly, and would make the guesstimates inacurate.

But a more simplistic timer may do the same thing. If you start with "4 hours of fuel"...you could start a countdown at 3.5 hours, and have an alarm at the end.

Thanks for the ideas,
Walter


Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot
 
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2/15/2011 10:39 AM
 

Hello Walter,

A fuel timer would be handy for us that need to switch tanks during flight. Having a timer that you set up once and would activate say at 60knots (take off roll) with the ability to preset the time and forget is very useful. At 30 minutes into the flight you would get a pop up message Fuel Tanks or Change Tank and hit the button to start timing again until the completion of your flight.

Regards,

Paul

 
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