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[Russ]

I was reading over in A.net that the rule of thumb for takeoffs is about 1 hour fuel.

I suggest that a 1 hour fuel cost be added for each route leg to reflect this. That change should be very easy to add to the programming.

This will change the economics of all those routes of less than one hour flying time, especially the WB on short routes.

[TorqueWrench]

I was reading over in A.net

Dont belive everything you read on the internet...

[Russ]

Dont belive everything you read on the internet...

I try not too, that is why I threw that out to the experts and cited my rather shakey source. Like slashdot, some great info there but a lot of pure crap too. It did make some sense in that more fuel would be used in climbing than cruising.

Regardless, I was trying to come up with a reasonable solution for WB on short routes. At least in the US, they don't run the aircraft that way and it does give the big carriers an insurmountable advantage over any particular route.