Mirage 2000C, how to be fuel efficient?

[DZShizzam]

Does anybody know where I can find data on the V speeds for the Mirage 2000c?

 

I'm hoping to learn to become more fuel efficient, and to have more realistic takeoff/landing profiles (I'm aware that landings should be done by targeting a 14 degree AoA).

 

I'm looking to learn what speed will result in the greatest range, and what speeds result in the greatest loiter time. In a perfect world I'd love to have tables I can print out that show these values at various speeds/altitudes.

 

Does anyone know where information like this might be found?

[myHelljumper]

Does anybody know where I can find data on the V speeds for the Mirage 2000c?

 

I'm hoping to learn to become more fuel efficient, and to have more realistic takeoff/landing profiles (I'm aware that landings should be done by targeting a 14 degree AoA).

 

I'm looking to learn what speed will result in the greatest range, and what speeds result in the greatest loiter time. In a perfect world I'd love to have tables I can print out that show these values at various speeds/altitudes.

 

Does anyone know where information like this might be found?

 

As the FM is often changing I don't think RB will provide the data you want until the FM is stabilized.

 

After the next FM update I will do some of the charts you talk about and I will post the data for you if you want :).

 

For the moment I mostly use the best range engine RPM that is ~85% at all altitudes ;).

[DZShizzam]

Ah, well that makes sense. Thanks!

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

At low and medium altitudes I stay at 80% rpm as much as possible. At high altitude, full MIL indeed since fuel consumption is really low.

[plaiskool]

concur with crash O

 

work usally on f15 as well,

 

-Climb at minimum mach 0.85 (Dry power if you want to save fuel)

-Stay up there at mach 0.85/0.9

and last, very important, you can save good amount of fuel during the descent.

 

(If you fly at 40K, if you go idle, then -10° fly path, you will travel 40Nm)

With the mirage you can easily go to -7.5° for an economical descent.

 

Then if you fly at 50Kft, idle descent at -7.5° will make you travel 75 Nm idle wich is not negligible.

 

how to comput your time of descent?

 

easy way:

 

Take RTB heading, zoom in into HUD, when homebase hit the -7.5° line on hud just go idle and start descent (>300Kts) to put velocity vector on base...

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Math way:

 

Take your altitude, add half of it, that will give you your distance to base/navaids/tgt to start descent.

 

And by the way you can visually compute distance with hud using this methode

On this screen sochi is at : "alt+alt/2=distance" 11+5.5=16/17Nm