(Old) Flight School | Ep-18: Fuel calculation | Flight planning | C172 REP | X-plane 11

A huge portion of general aviation related accidents are due to fuel starvation. Making sure you have more than enough fuel on board to complete your cross country flight is one of the most important preparations you can make. In this video we learn how to calculate the required amount of fuel for our trip.
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Airports visited in this episode:
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Tools used:
-Skyvector: skyvector.com/
-Aviation Weather: www.aviationwe...
-Metar Abbreviations: www.aopa.org/t...
-C172S Information Manual: www.gaceflying...
-The simulator used is X-Plane 11:
www.x-plane.com/
-The plane used is the default X-Plane 11 C172 with the Reality Expansion Pack by Simcoders:
www.simcoders....
-Also used is Ortho4xp for generating satellite terrain scenery:
UA-cam tutorial:
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Download link:
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-The camera movements are provided by XPRealistic:
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[@CMDmed6067]

One of the best explanation out there,
Thank you and keep up with the good work.

[@andrewsclater-booth5703]

I really enjoy your videos - thank you

[@ZaHaDum1984]

A very good video. This is one of the topics that I have been waiting for.
One question: How do I calculate the pressure altitude with mbar, instead of inHg?

[@TheBlackast]

This video is very helpfull, many thanks for sharing it. May I ask is there a website for europe with the temperatur difference?

[@j-c4997]

So helpful!!!

[@Flight72]

Hi, I've enjoyed a lot you video and explanations. Very detailed in deed! Thanks for you effort and good work! It's have being difficult to find the wright temperatures at various altitudes! I am aiming at central america specifically! Can you advise any good site to find this info? By the way some of your links don't work anymore! - expected after 2 years :-)

[@diogomiranda975]

Hey man! One question, contingency fuel is not 5% of the trip fuel?
Great video btw!

[@GraceKZT]

I guess that depends about the country you're doing the flight plan or the airline, not all use the saem percent for the contingency fuel

[@aqeelahmad1226]

Make a video on ELT and weight and balance

[@digitalaviator5088]

Uploading weight and balance right now :)

[@aqeelahmad1226]

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