Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Variations from actual aircraft weight variants

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DVA10446 Captain, A330-300 OLP Joined on January 08 2012 50 State Club Globetrotter Online Triple Century Club Quatercentenary Club "Selfless are the designers who keep addons free." Philadelphia, PA USA 404 legs, 1,354.8 hours 387 legs, 1,303.1 hours online 401 legs, 1,343.3 hours ACARS 3 legs, 5.0 hours event	Posted onPost created on October 22 2012 14:06 ET by Justin Carey
	Hey guys, Just wanted to bring up something I've found. I came across the following document while obtaining data for some load planning tools I've been developing. It can be found at http://www.scribd.com/doc/49702926/start (it's a Scribd, so it's a bit of a pain to scroll, search and read). But anyway, listed in the document is a great deal of info regarding each individual carriers' respective weight variants of their particular model of aircraft. In this case, the A320 family. Now, listed in the detailed specifications for the type, found at http://www.airbus.com/support/maintenance-engineering/technical-data/aircraft-characteristics/ you will note a number of variations, or "WV001, WV002" and so on for each aircraft. Unfortunately, I found a great deal of inaccuracy regarding the weight variables which are within the DVA documentation and subsequently, the DVA aircraft specification database referenced after filing a pirep. If this sounds confusing, hear me out. In the first document I linked above, after doing some searching you will find that DAL utilizes Weight Variant 001, or "WV001", for its fleet of A319's. In the DVA documentation for the A320 family, it states in the manual that the MTOW for the A319 is 141,000lbs. This is representative of the "baseline" specifications for WV000 as noted in the Airbus documentation. However, DAL actually uses WV001, which would give it an MTOW of 154,324 lbs. To put it into perspective, that additional 13000 lbs, if filled with fuel, would grant a range of nearly 2700nm under a full passenger payload of 27000lbs, whereas the DVA reference MTOW of 141000lbs would grant a range of no more than 1400nm with the same payload, making some A319 routes found within DVA's database out of spec parameters, such as MNMG-KATL and KSNA-KMSP. If the actual weight variants would be taken into account in the sim, flown and filed via ACARS, anything between the MTOW of 141000 and 154300lbs would grant the "Excessive Aircraft Weight Detected" message after filing the flight report. Luckily, the document lists not only all of DAL's fleet Weight Variants, but also those of the codeshares. Below I'll list the differences between the DVA Documentation/Data with the actual airline Weight Variants. If you should require any additional Weight Variant information for just about any other aircraft within any fleet, I have a number of documents I keep from my previous occupation that contain much of the data and I would be more than glad to share it should it benefit any updates to the database. A318 DVA MTOW: 130100 lbs AFR MTOW (WV008): 141096 lbs A319 DVA MTOW: 141100 lbs DAL MTOW (WV001): 154324 lbs (China Eastern uses WV005, Air France uses WV000, CSA uses WV002) A320 DVA MTOW: 162000 lbs DAL MTOW (WV009): 166449 lbs (China Eastern uses WV008, Air France uses WV010) A321 DVA MTOW: 183000 lbs AFR MTOW (WV000): 196211 lbs
DVA4165 Senior Captain, L-1011-100 Joined on March 05 2007 Online Century Club 50 State Club Burbank Bi-Millennium Club Globetrotter Five Million Mile Club Piston Prop Professional Tri-Millennium Club DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary "Go tell your MOMMA what the BIG boys fly- L-1011" McDonough, GA USA 3,180 legs, 13,005.3 hours 168 legs, 585.2 hours online 3,151 legs, 12,863.6 hours ACARS 1 legs, 1.8 hours event	Posted onPost created on October 27 2012 21:47 ET by Don Baker
	I updated the A319,A320,A330-200,-300 weights
DVA10446 Captain, A330-300 OLP Joined on January 08 2012 50 State Club Globetrotter Online Triple Century Club Quatercentenary Club "Selfless are the designers who keep addons free." Philadelphia, PA USA 404 legs, 1,354.8 hours 387 legs, 1,303.1 hours online 401 legs, 1,343.3 hours ACARS 3 legs, 5.0 hours event	Posted onPost created on October 27 2012 22:35 ET by Justin Carey
	Excellent, thank you Don!

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