FuelUp! Fuel and ETE(time enroute) calculator for Microsoft Flight Simulator
By Dmitry Stepin aka Bravo.

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FuelUp! is supersimple fuel and time enroute calculator for those
who too lazy to spend too much time for searching and entering whole masses of data that 
"serious" fuel calculators typically require.

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Installation:

Just unzip and put two files(FuelUp!.exe and aircraft_data.xml) in the directory of your choice.
Make sure these two files are located in the same directory!

FuelUp! requires updated .NET Framework to work.

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Using:

Just select aircraft type,distance measurment units,fuel quantity units,enter distance and hit "Calculate".

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Several notes:

1. When calculating required fuel,FuelUp! takes into account fuelburn during taxiing
 as well as fuel required for possible "go-around" plus fuel reserve for additional 40 minutes of flight.

2.When calculating time enroute, taxiing and possible "traffic jams" time is also taken into account.

3.Calculations are based on dozens of flights statistics and provide average,pretty accurate result.

Anyway,you can modify any parameter,used in calculations to get more accurate results as explaned
in the next section.

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Parameters modifying and new aircraft adding:

FuelUp! uses enclosed aircraft_data.xml file as database for calculations.
Data entries can be easily added/modified.
Just open it with notepad and make any modifications/corrections you want.

Parameters:

type-------------------------just a name of the aircraft as it appears in selection list

taxiCons------------------fuel consumption when taxiing(gallons per hour)

cruiseCons-------------cruise flight fuel consumption(gallons per hour)

fuelCapacity------------overall aircraft fuel tanks capacity(gallons)

cruiseSpeed----------- IAS(indicated airspeed) cruise speed(knots)


Important notes:

You can add any number of new aicraft sections up to maximum 100 sections.
I think it's more then enough for any flightsimmer;)

All sections must follow exactly the same syntax as existing ones.
Otherwise error will occure or entries just will be ignored.

Don't forget to reload FuelUp! for changes to take effect.


Happy landings!

dimbravo@gmail.com


