Yet another tweak to the Econ Mod Revenue Calculations

I discovered my issue with the missing landing rate. When I last updated my copy of SPAACARs and selected my spa.ini file I forgot that I had to again set the "use econ mode" and "include Landing Rate" settings in the settings menu of SPAACARS. Pretty sure that was the problem, but then it shouldn't have been sending the econ data to the econ module page (or show data when clicking on your pilot id in the Arrivals page).

So...tomorrow I think I'll look into why it's not recognizing when pilot's 'opt out' of the econ module.

Also, I've been slowly trimming down the cost/revenue numbers for larger aircraft flights so they're not so high, so if you notice an overall reduction in cost and revenue for the large aircraft (over 100,000 Lbs), that's the reason and has nothing to do with your flight planning.

John<br /><br /><!-- editby --><br /><br /><em>edited by: jer029, Apr 14, 2016 - 06:01 PM</em><!-- end editby -->

Jim...further checking on your fuel burn rate. I did some quick checking on line and found for the 737-300:

The current most common 737 is the 737-300. Here are some very rough values, that a certain airline uses to compute manual flight plans incase the computer system fails.
Climb - 2950lbs / 15mins
Cruise - 5500lbs/hr
Descent - 600lbs / 20mins
Hold - 2650 / 30mins
Alternate - 1950 / 20mins
Min arrival fuel - 6300lbs
Recomended arrival fuel - 8300lbs
These numbers were based on a 27000lbs payload (approx 130pax plus bags)

I realize you're flying the 900, but the rates would probably be similar.

A rough calc of your last flight showed fuel used = 10558 lbs

flt time = 2.5 hrs

so...I get 4223.2 lbs per hour for your last flight as the actual burn rate, which is not too far off of the numbers I found above with a quick google search.

Make sure you're not mixing gallons and gallons per hour with lbs per hour (be sure to click on 'show fuel as weight' in the fuel/payload section of fsx, then compare what you think the burn rate is and compare that to the 4223.2 figure.

John
<br /><br /><!-- editby --><br /><br /><em>edited by: jer029, Apr 14, 2016 - 06:15 PM</em><!-- end editby -->

Econ Mode Setting now works correctly. Econ data reset. Perhaps some final tweaking on larger aircraft cost/revenue model, but we'll see.

John<br /><br /><!-- editby --><br /><br /><em>edited by: jer029, Apr 15, 2016 - 08:40 AM</em><!-- end editby -->