Payload Manager

Fuelload Section & Crew/Pax/Cargoload Section

Main's aircraft section, payload and fuelload color-marked indication

General

The core aspects of an ACV flight are safety, time and revenue. Enough fuelload upholds the safety aspect, as much payload as meaningful follows the revenue purpose and the overall gross-weight of the aircraft correlates with time (the heavier the aircraft the slower and less fuel efficient the aircraft becomes).

Wnd Main, section aircraft, indicates the current payload and the current fuelload on board of the aircraft. Clicking the payload label, opens the payload section of the Payload Manager. Click on fuelload label to open its fuelload section.

• Never begin an ACV flight with a red marked payload label (would result in denial of flight acceptance).
• But it is possible to begin an ACV flight with a red marked fuelload label.

Message box explains criticality, e.g. loaded payload exceeds the max. possible payload this aircraft type.

The color legend of these two labels:

• Red payload label, the loaded payload is 1) higher than max. aircraft payload, 2) is higher than the available payload or 3) is less than 90% of the available payload.
• Green payload label, the loaded payload is between 90-100% of the available payload without exceeding max. aircraft payload.
• Red fuelload label, the loaded fuel significantly deviates from the estimated fuelload.
• Green fuelload label, the loaded fuel is close to the estimated fuelload.

Clicking a red colored label (payload or fuelload), a message box explains the criticality before the user reaches the payload or fuelload section of the Payload Manager.

Payload Manager, overview indications

Header section

This overview section contains the most important parameters to set and to evaluate the fuelload and payload. Indicated are the following parameter:

• Crew, the number of crew members on board
• Passengers, the number of passengers on board
• FOB, the currently loaded fuel on board
• Max. Payload, the maximum payload weight the current aircraft type is capable to transport (e.g. A306F is able to carry 90800 lbs). Do not load more payload to the aircraft than its maximum payload is.
• Available Payload, the currently available cargo on the ground to be loaded. The percentage value represents the relation between available payload to max. payload (e.g. 96% means that the amount of the available payload is 96% of the maximum payload weight). More info below Payload Manager#Available Payload.
• Loaded Payload, this value indicates the current loaded payload weight on board of the aircraft. The precentage value considers the relation between available payload and loaded payload (e.g. 100.1% means that the loaded value is exceeding the available payload, red colored because only 100% of the available payload can be transported).
• Max. Gross-Weight, the maximum weight this aircraft is capable to carry without breaking apart. The gross-weight is the sum of empty-weight, fuelload and payload. As example, the A306F gets damaged when overloading it with more than 377872 lbs of gross-weight.
• Gross-Weight, the current sum of empty-weight, fuelload and payload on board of the actual aircraft.
• NOT loaded Payload, indicating the difference between loaded payload and available payload. Check here to verify how much available payload has not been loaded to the aircraft.

Available Payload

Payload minimum 90%, maximum 100%

The current available payload waiting on the ground to be loaded into the aircraft. It is up to the user to decide, if all available payload shall be loaded or, if less payload shall be loaded but with extra weight left for additional fuelload. It is not possible to load more than 100% of the available payload. Furthermore, at least 90% of the available payload shall be loaded. The default available payload is calculated in correlation to the loaded aircraft type and to the estimated fuelload.

Semi-transparent Minimal, exceeding available payload, red forecolor does mean: Critical conditions

Loaded payload (profit) vs. loaded fuelload (range/security)

At the beginning of each flight, the user must decide between two aspects. First, try to transport as much payload (of the available payload) as possible. The more payload is being transported, the higher the revenue. On the other hand and as prevailing duty, each flight shall be executed with enough fuel, including the needed fuel reserves for safety reasons. Does mean, it is up to the user to decide between payload revenue and fuel safety.

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Menu Flight, open fuelload manager

ACVacars menu Flight

The Payload Manager is only accessible during a running ACV flight while an active "boarding phase". Else, it is not possible to reach it.

• To reach the "fuelload manager", follow the menu "Flight" to reach the submenu "Fuelload". It opens the fuelload section of the payload manager.
• Following the submenu "Payload" will bring you to the Crew/Pax/Cargoload section of the payload manager.

ACVacars, Payload Manager, Fuelload section

Aircraft main section

This section shows the current status of the following aircraft parameter:

• Current number of crew on board
• Current number of passengers on board
• Current fuel on board (FOB)
• Max. possible payload this aircraft type
• Max. gross-weight this aircraft type
• Current gross-weight (empty weight + fuelload + payload)

Additionally are following parameters shown:

• Available payload, the currently max. available payload waiting on the ground to be loaded into the aircraft.
• NOT loaded payload, the difference between the "available payload" minus the currently loaded payload. Use this indication to check, if the loaded payload is sufficient and what extra weight is still left for, e.g. extra fuelload.

Fuelload section

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ACVacars, Payload Manager, Crew/Pax/Cargoload section (Differences between MSFS/XP/P3D and between aircraft addons)

Crew/Pax/Cargoload section

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