@LorikEolmin said in any fuel calculator program ?:
@dave76 said in any fuel calculator program ?:
i just need a small explanation about bingo fuel to return home …
if i sum 1000 min fuel(updated)+400 vmc pattern+700 alternate +3000 all the route trip fuel…+1000 joker = 6100.
now if i tank 6100 lbs of fuel how can bingo be 5100?
meaning.i will burn 3000lbs +1000 joker in the tanks i have left 700+400+1000 ( alternate+vmc+minimum fuel…so bingo shouldn’t be 2100? ( not 5100 that i will achieve shortly after take off still en route…)
can somebody tell me if i am correct?
Bingo without any further detail is not an amount of fuel, it’s brevity meaning you reached a pre-briefed level of fuel that needs to take some specific actions, which are basically to follow your flight plan to home plate - and other stuff related to how your flight will react to that.
It correlates to a fuel state though. It usually correlates to the fuel you need to follow your flight plan safely to home plate from the “farthest” STPT of your plan.
So you calculate what you need from that STPT, adding anything you suspect to be safe (eg additional fuel for a NOE portion). You indeed add 1,000 lbs to get the Joker pre-warning, meaning " I just finish what I’m doing, I’m going to be left with no other choice than running".
If you reach Bingo halfway home, there is no point to mention it usually. If you reach Bingo anytime before your mission is processed, you have to interrupt it and save the plane (you can still keep flying a bit farther probably, but certainly not as far as the briefed mission demands). The only things that enter in calculation of your usual Bingo lay in there.
I’m writing all of this because I actually don’t understand what you’re asking, so I suspect we’re not talking of the same thing.
right, i was asking how to understand which is the amount of bingo fuel to include in total (say block fuel) to have enough to return to home plate …and how to calculate it during PREFLIGHT …hope i explain myself