To fly an aircraft well, you need to know it well. And for this, we turn to the reference documents that we will now see.
Flight manual
Kodiak100_POH-1It is, by nature, the reference document. Written by the manufacturer, it describes the appliance in great detail, the rules to be followed at all levels of its use, the operating procedures and the actions to be taken to manage breakdowns.
Its more than 400 pages can be frightening, but can one reasonably dispense with reading it ?
I don’t think so.
Check-lists
Kodiak-100-checklist-version-2-1The ckeck-lists are taken from the flight manual. It is a synthetic version of the actions to be taken at each stage of the aircraft handling and flight.
You will only find here the normal procedures, as Flight Simulator cannot handle random failures. It would be nice if the next updates would remedy this shortcoming which is a bit detrimental to realism.
Performance analysis
Kodiak-100_Performances-1These tables, also extracted from the flight manual, allow you to prepare your flight well, in particular to choose a coherent cruising speed and have a reliable fuel consumption reference. It is therefore a tool that is used for every flight preparation.
Fuel requirement
To facilitate the preparations, I created this file which allows to know, with precision, the fuel needs, once the navigation log is finalized.
Note that the Kodiak 100 is equipped with a turbine and uses Jet-A1. This will be a parameter that will be taken into account for the choice of the landing fields.
That said, the flights will be made with just two crew members and 60 kg of baggage. We will therefore always be well below the maximum weight of the aircraft. This will allow us to plan, if we choose to land at a field that does not offer a Jet-A1, to foresee, in advance, the need for two consecutive flights.
We can also envisage, if necessary, technical stopovers during the journey.
I think we are now ready to make our first start-up.
