Online flight planner not calculating fuel burn

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: The online flight planner does not calculate the fuel burn, and instead uses the hourly average burn as the block fuel.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? 100%

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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  1. Plan a route with the online planner
  2. Enter average hourly fuel burn
  3. Examine results

YOUR SETTINGS

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[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? not relevant

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[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?not relevant

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Entering the block fuel (calculated by Simbrief) into the hourly fuel burn doesn’t work either -

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How can it possibly be ending up with less fuel? Is it subtracting the taxi fuel instead of adding it? Seems like some very basic programming errors here. Final reserve is not even being added to block fuel.

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I ignored the fuel issue and tried to save my plan but it didn’t work anyway, so I had to refresh the page and my flight plan disappeared completely.

Flight planner looks like it will be really good once it actually works, I was particularly impressed with the SID/STAR selection menus and charts. Sadly currently it’s not functional for me.

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Thank you for the bug report.

We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.

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Yes, this flight planner tool is not much use if it can’t calculate the fuel burn for a particular aircraft type on a route that you have made with this flight planner, and taking into account winds etc.
The tool can generate an operational flight plan (OFP), but all the fuel-related fields are zero!

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I am still having the same issue whree the flight planner isn’t calculating fuel burn for the respective aircraft type. Even if it is an overestimate, I would still love to see something here.

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Agree fuel calculation is null void and not giving any usable figure. Winds and weight not taken into consideration at all. Useless and still not logged as a bug