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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:55 pm 
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I remember someone saying that flying incorrect a/c can do bad things to the fuel costs. Can someone explain why that matters anyway? Does using FSAcars mean your VA has to fly by some kind of rule book? If so, why does it matter? Are we being ranked or rated or evaluated?



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I dunno

All I know is that all my planes are equipped with engines designed to consume biofuel to save world environment:):):)

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If you wish to look at CVA operating as a real airline would with expenses and trying to turn a profit, then it matters. If you could care less, then it does not matter.

When you fly a flight with an aircraft a class higher, the fuel usage will be greater. Since the flight was supposed to be flown with a smaller class aircraft, the passenger load will reflect that and the total passenger income will be less therefore higher fuel costs for the passenger load.

For example if it was supposed to be flown by an ERJ-145 with 70 pax each paying $125, the total flight income would be $8750.

If the ERJ burned 4700 lbs of fuel, the fuel costs at a generic $1/lb would be $4700. This would give us a net profit before paying the pilot of $4050.

If you now fly that same flight with the LDS 767, you may use 9200 lbs of fuel. Since we only took in $8750 in passenger fares, your fuel usage would give us a loss of $450.

And I bet you would still expect to get paid too... ???



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LOL yah! I want to get paid too.

But it is odd that it calculates the fuel you use but won't calculate income based on the passengers you carry. If I fly a 767, it should have more income from Px.



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Well this is the thing we have been talking about with routes and aircraft class. You see if you increase the pax on the ACARS to accomodate the bigger plane then the fuel expense and revenue is on track for a good profit. The problem is that when there a class one route management has only sold 40 tickets and not 180 as what a 767 can handle.



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I change it up all the time. For instance, flight 6028 from YYC to GEG is scheduled to be flown with a DHC-6. I chose to fly it with a 738. I updated the number of passengers in FSAcars when I set up the flight to 148.

Now, when I look at the log of the flight, I see that it says:

Gross Revenue: (148 load / $ 150.00 per unit) $ 22,200.00
Fuel Cost: (6990 fuel used @ 1 / unit) $ 6,990.00

That gives me a gross profit of $15,210.00

So the VA finances should be ok, right?

I think where the problem comes in, is if a person doesn't fill in the number of passengers when starting your FSAcars log. I could then see VA financial plugging in a default (and much lower) number of pax for the flight and then screwing up the finances, yes?

Bottom line, gotta get these damned pilots to fill in their paperwork properly! LMAO



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Keith CVA51 wrote:
Bottom line, gotta get these damned pilots to fill in their paperwork properly! LMAO

This is IMPORTANT tip that I agree with!!!!!!!



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Welll, this is something great. I'll give it a try.



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