Next time you AutoRoute with RocketRoute, click Optimize to help reduce your fuel burn.
Optimize analyzes your route and calculates your fuel burns at a range of Flight Levels for the duration of the flight.
Use it to cross-check against your original planned FL to see if you can save fuel by re-planning and filing a different Flight Level.
Note: for flights in Europe, Optimize does not pre-validate with Eurocontrol upper FLs. This must be performed separately.
Below is a route from London to Istanbul with a Gulfstream aircraft.
The route has been run in the normal way by pressing Autoroute. Several route proposals are returned.
For the selected route, click Optimize.
This will perform a calculation in realtime using the latest winds forecast available for the flight.
A popup will be displayed (see below).
Items highlighted in white show your current planned FL. Items in red show a negative impact and in green an improvement.
From the above screenshot you can see selecting a higher FL will improve fuel burn by almost 1,000 pounds (subject to TOM).
With this information, the user can close the popup. Update the planned FL and check (if flying in Europe) that it is still valid.
For smaller aircraft, Optimize can also help prepare for a route and to consider the fueling impact of flying at a different FLs. The example below is with an SR22T.
Optimize is available to all aircraft and all performance models and users with a Business Level Membership.
If you would like to evaluate a free trial of Business Membership, simply email our sales@rocketroute.com below.
Telephone: +44 1273 782130.
Pro and Basic Members if you would like to have an Optimize feature included with your membership, please make a request to our team via support@rocketroute.com.