Fuel Uplift Calculator

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Multi-Aircraft Fuel Calculator: uplift in litres, logged per aircraft

Fuel planning that closes one specific gap. The figure needed on board comes in pounds. The bowser delivers litres, one tank at a time. Converting between the two in your head while standing on an apron is exactly where a refuelling error comes from, so the tool does the conversion and reports the uplift per tank in the unit it will actually be delivered in, with ten litre adjustments for what the bowser really gives.

It covers two aircraft by registration, 8R-KAB and 8R-BKB, and it keeps the record afterwards. Each refuel is saved with the aircraft, who carried it out, the time, the uplift left and right, and the final figure on board. What is left is a log rather than a number that existed only while somebody was holding the hose.

What it does

• Pounds in, litres outThe target is set in pounds and the uplift comes back per tank in litres.
• A log, not just a calculationEntries saved against the aircraft, with the refueller and a timestamp.
• The split is checkedThe division between left and right is verified before the figure is shown.

Built as a browser tool for flight line use. It is a planning and record aid, and it does not replace the figures in the aircraft flight manual.

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