Aircraft range

[simovitch]

What is the best way to determine the range of an aircraft that is not in the air? Do I really have to calculate the range based on burn rate, fuel load, and performance band in the database? These old eyes are just not seeing it. Thanks.

[ThunderCBR]

Check the aircraft loadouts individually. They have a range or time on station at X distance shown which will tell you its operating radius.

[maverick3320]

Couple tips on aircraft ranges:

1. the ranges listed on the load out screen are best used as relative estimates, not absolute. Particularly loadouts based on ingress and egress altitudes - a "lo-lo-lo" altitude loadout range can be exceeded drastically by forcing the aircraft to manually fly at high altitude (in safer areas, obviously).

2. Aircraft are much more fuel efficient upon releasing their ordinance.

3. Manually forcing an aircraft to "cruise" speed while RTB can increase fuel efficiency, as the game generally forces military speed throttle setting upon RTB. Cruise speed is much more fuel efficient vs military throttle.