Flight Plan- Fuel Block etc

Question 1

STANDARD

Answer 1

Type of fuel planning- dominant fuel policy applied

STANDARD: no special fuel planning and normal alternate selection
NO ALTN: planning with no dest alternate
REDUCED xxxx: If 3% ERA planning is applied
5MINUTES: Fuel planning takes into account 5min cont fuel

Question 2

CONT

Answer 2

Contingency fuel

CONT%5:
CONT%3:
CONT5MINUTES:
CONT6MINUTES: when either 5% or 5 min reaches 180kg,
system 180kg might be equiv to 6min fuel

TIME: time that CONT fuel would allow for based upon
flight`s mean fuel flow

Question 3

FINAL RESERVE

Answer 3

TIME: holding time 1500 feet above ALTN airport

Question 4

ADDITIONAL

Answer 4

fuel added by the system automatically to satisfy hard coded fuel policy

• critical fuel scenario/ETOPS
• min fleet T/O fuel
• min fleet ldg fuel
• no alternate
• unusable/ballast (prefixed by an asterisk)

Dispatcher has to clarify the breakdown of this fuel

TIME: based on flights mean fuel flow (not if unusable fuel)

Question 5

APU/TAXI

Answer 5

Subtype specific fuel flow x flight`s taxi time

TIME: it will always show original planned taxi time even if fuel has been manually increased

Question 6

REQUIRED FOB

Answer 6

Required block fuel, sum of all the fuel values including apu/taxi

TIME: sum of all the previous times except taxi

Question 7

TANKER/EXTRA

Answer 7

TIME: 1500 feet above DEST airport

(not part of the minimum legal fuel)

Question 8

REMF

Answer 8

= TOTAL FOB-TRIP-TAXI

CONT is assumed to be preserved

Question 9

MIN DIV

Answer 9

= Final res + Altn

CONT is assumed to be used at this point

Question 10

MIN DEP

Answer 10

MIN​ DEP​ =​ REQUIRED​ FOB​ – APU/TAXI​ fuel

This​ is​ for​ guidance​ only​ and​ not​ a​ hard​ fuel​ figure​ required ​for departure.

Question 11

PRF FACTOR

Answer 11

cruise​ degradation/performance factor​

fuel bias​ ​value from​ AC​ registration record

Question 12

TRAPO

Answer 12

Top of climb tropopause height