Cross Country flights ETE

[zeedub33]

Someone needs to check the data on the cross-country flights. The projected ETE is way off on some of them. It thinks I can fly 150 miles in 12 minutes (SCNT - SAWC, Patagonia). Same problem on previous leg.

[Kug3lf4ng]

They are not direct flights from Airport to Airport its the described Route, and those times are exactly accurate across all 3 Bush Trips if you use the Standard cruise Speed for the Aircraft.
OFC you can just "♥♥♥♥ it" and fly directly to the next airport, but then tell me why would you do a VFR Bush Trip in the first Place.

[zeedub33]

You're not understanding what I'm saying. On the individual leg page, a 1 hr 20 min leg is listed as 11 minutes, 52 seconds ETE.

[Looks like Duke]

Originally posted by zeedub33:

You're not understanding what I'm saying. On the individual leg page, a 1 hr 20 min leg is listed as 11 minutes, 52 seconds ETE.

Are you talking before you enter the plane and start playing (taking off)? On description of the legs before you click the fly (or whatever it is called) button?

[zeedub33]

Specifically the NAVLOG window that loads with each leg, when you're on the runway. When a leg is over an hour, the ETE either drops or shifts the hour column somehow, giving a wrong ETE.

[Looks like Duke]

I had never seen 1 hour leg there. All legs are less than 10 minutes that I have seen. Or are you talking about overall time?

[zeedub33]

Patagonia legs 7 and 8.

[Northern Aurora]

I keep taking on flights that are like 2 hours on the world map only to finish 4 hours later.

[beatlemaniac]

Originally posted by zeedub33:

Patagonia legs 7 and 8.

I just did these and saw the same thing. The ETE is not showing hours, just minutes & seconds. I haven't tested it on a flight that's over an hour and a non-Bush-Trip.

[zeedub33]

The Navlog you can pull up in flight is rarely synched with the FMS/GPS distances. And for flights over an hour on standard flights, the ETE has the same problem as outlined above. Currently doing a Round The World in an SR22, and the Navlog is pretty much useless. The flight planner seems to use navlog calculations, not FMS/GPS calculations for time and distance.