A320 out of fuel in mid flight

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I started a flight from Cairns to Denpasar Bali, a 4.5 hour flight. I set payload at maximum(100%). After 3.5 hours into the flight my fueltanks were empty and the plane started gliding towards the ocean. I saw somewhere the A320 has a flight range of 7/8 hours or so. Did I do something wrong?

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Yes. You had insufficient fuel.

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I said I did set the slider to 100%. I am looking for a serious answer

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did you hear something like: OVERSPEED OVERSPEED OVERSPEED?

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Yes the whole flight lol. But for some reason I couldn’t set my speed.

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I wish an airline tutorial would have made it from FSX to FS2020.

However, there seems to be an issue with the center tank and / or general fuel consumption.

Regarding the overspeed issue:

  • check if AI co-pilot is turned on man with hat icon in toolbar
  • check if auto-throttle is on
  • if auto-throttle is on, check if it has the right setting for the phase of the flight
  • check if flaps have the right setting for the phase of the flight (the higher the flaps setting, the lower the speed limit)
  • after liftoff there should be basically no occasion where your engines should run close to 100%

So, to answer your question: yes, you likely did at least something wrong. But so did the sim. Deuce. :smiley:

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Thanks for replying mate. I’ll check next time when I start a new flight :smiley:

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Well here is the problem: You didn’t post a serious question.
What is “the slider”? You did only mention “payload” in your opening post. Payload is not fuel. Without knowing the fuel on board, nobody can answer your question.

If you leave the fuel untouched in the loadout section, MSFS regularly takes off with 50% fuel. So 3.5 hours of flight time would be a pretty ok if you expect 7-8 hours for 100% fuel.

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I set the fuel slider to 100%. 47.000 lb

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If you couldn’t set your speed, did you try to manually lower your throttle?

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What was your altitude profile? Fuel burn increases the lower you maintain your cruise…
100% payload and 100 % fuel may as well exceed reasonable Take-off-mass and add to increased fuel burn / later climbs to fuel efficient altittudes…

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