Hi out there. I read a lot in this forum about fuel planning in SD. Even the pros and cons of making a whole new fuel calculation each stop I plan (with the "land here" function) vs. calculating with the remaining fuel.

BTW, I also plead for a fuel calculation possibility for the whole trip. With calclulate on base of remaining fuel (if you need more votes for that )!

But I found so far no answer for a mostly common problem we have (expect of "do it manually"):

- I recently plan a trip of about 2 hours flight time. That is absolutely within my tank capacity WHITOUT any refuelling including reserves.

- The trip has four stops (or more. But even with one stop the problem exists)

- At each leg I get a fuel calculation by SD including the 30 min. holding.

This makes about 120 minutes of holdings/reserve on a 120 minute flight with 4 stops. That does really not make sense!

Altough I do understand why you (until now ) decided not to implement a feature that calculates the fuel based on the remaining amout after first landing, I cannot find a way to tell SD "please use the 30 Min. Holding and contingency JUST ONCE".

It is absolutely clear that I can plan a flight without "land here" and ad manually the amount of fuel for landing and departure/take off. But that is IMHO much more critical and error-prone, than computing with the reamining fuel I think. 

A suggestion for that often discussed topic could be: In the settings offer a checkbox which says "Plan or do not plan reserve/holding/contingency after each landing". If you want add "we highly recommend to leave this active". Or an explanation "If you turn this to off reserve/holding/contingency fuel will be calculates just once for the whole trip".

But the - in my opinion -  best solution is the here in the forum often suggested way to calculate a multiple stop (or sector) with the remaining fuel and send a warning when there is not enough fuel for further legs.

Thank for your suggestions on my question above, hints and answers

Daniel

Hi Tim, both. t&g and full stops. I want to use the "land here" function because it calculates the taxi, takeoff and landing consumption and gives me the aerodrome charts, frequencies and other features I love at this app (landing visualisation e.g.)

But I do not need to refill on these short trips. Often (I am allowd to land on glider sites too, like most microlights, ultralights) there even is no refuel possibility. So I HAVE to calculate with the fuel I have aboard. And for that I  have to fly with only one amount of reserve right from the start. After a full stop landing, I check the tank, see maybe 50 from 60 liters, have a look in the fuel calculation of SD and see "Okay, for the rest of my trip I need 45 liters". Or, if I needed the reserve fuel (never happens until now): For the rest of my trip I would need 55 litres, so I can fly back or to an alternate or whatever is shorter or gives me refuelling possibility.

If I am on a longer trip an NEED to reach my destination airport (and do not want to shortcut or fly back if I have to divert or use the reserve) I am totally with you. On this kind of trips I stop over, maybe use every refuelling possibility. Therefore all SD calculations are totally fine.