I have seen many discussions on Cargo units/limits here, and none of them seem to apply to my situation. I have a flight that goes from BOG to MCO to ATL. The flight is full of passenger and cargo in each segment. However, the much shorter MCO to ATL segment (~650 km) only has 27 possible units of cargo while the longer BOG to MCO (~2700 km) has 60 possible units of cargo per the load monitoring page. Both flights have 126 economy seats, 20 business seats, and 4 first class seats, all filled. It is the same plane. How can the much longer flight hold more than double the units of the shorter flight?
Even more confusing, when I created the Load Monitoring limited to just flights through MCO, the first flight from Bogota to Orlando shows 60/60 cargo. All subsequent flights show a maximum of 27 cargo going in either direction whether headed for Bogota or Atlanta.
Is the first value of 60 just a glitch? If it is, then I assume the 27 cargo must be volume limited rather than weight limited. Otherwise, it makes no sense for the values to be the same for both flight segments.
Or does the game actively use different types of cargo so that it recognized the maximum weight was the limit in the first flight and that the maximum volume was the limit in subsequent flights?
The first picture show 004PWA with 126/20/4 & 60 Cargo. The rest of the 1st picture and 2nd shows 006PWA with 102/10/4 & 27 Cargo is the reason why I asked.
But if you are using a 737-700ERW, then you are payload restricted landing into DCA. You’ll also start to become restricted on longer routes out of DCA around 1400-1600km due to available runway length.
No, sorry, I am still having problems. Flight schedule for a given plane shown here. All flights are N006PWA. I identified this specific flight on a problem in my load monitoring as it had a % return that was way lower (6%-age points) than any other flight it flew, including the reverse flight.
I double checked it was the same plane. In Load Monitoring, it listed N006PWA as the plane operating on all of the DCA ATL MCO BOG and return route that particular day.
On all of the flights EXCEPT ATL to DCA, the plane has 27 units of cargo available. On the specific flight from ATL to DCA every single time the flight operates, it only has 1 unit of cargo available. As shown, all other flights the plane operates have 27 units of cargo available, including the flights between MCO and BOG, which are considerably longer.
Yh that checks out, what is happening there is that performance limitations is being applied in order to be able to operate the flight. This is due to the smaller runway length available at DCA
Thank you. Still learning all the tools on the site. You also corrected a misconception I had: I thought planes had less cargo capacity when departing an airport with a shorter runway because they needed more runway for the fuller fuel tanks. Just curious…do you know if the program calculates required fuel for a flight, if it adds on the amount of fuel to a diversion airport, or if it always keeps the tanks full at take-off?
The upcoming version 1.5 of the performance system will compute fuel consumption based on actual weight and it will take into account standard mission rules for fuel reserves. I will still be extremely simplified, but I’ll brush up the formulas for a version 2.0 down the line. At least I hope so
