CRUISE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
D. CRUISE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Several Airbus tools are available to perform cruise performance analysis. The Airbus Aircraft Performance Monitoring (APM) program comes first for routine aircraft performance monitoring due to the amount of data to process. Indeed, this program features a DMU/FDIMU report loading function, which relieves from tedious handling operations.
Some other Airbus tools (the IFP program…) are available for these analyses and may be used. The tool choice is at the airline's discretion.
The following lines deal with the software aspect of cruise performance analysis. The pre-requisite for this chapter is a basic comprehension of how to get the parameters from the aircraft, as well as general background on the specific range method itself.
1. THE BOOK LEVEL
As a reminder, the aircraft performance book level is established by the aircraft manufacturer and represents a fleet average of brand new aircraft and engines. This level is established in advance of production and is derived from flight tests. Normal scatter of brand new aircraft leads to performance above and below the book value. The performance data given in the Airbus documentation (Flight Crew Operating Manual) reflects this book value.
The high-speed book value data is stored in the high-speed performance databases used by Airbus performance software such as the IFP, the FLIP or the APM programs. This aircraft Performance model is built based on results from extensive performance flight tests: the IFP model. Most of the Computerized Flight Plan systems as well as the published Performance tables in the Flight Crew Operating Manual and in the Quick Reference Handbook use the IFP model.
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