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Jul 6^th, 2004 at 3:17pm

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Can a 737-900 make the following flights:
KLAX to PHNL (Honolulu).
PHNL to Tokyo Haneda.
KJFK to Barbadose.

Can the aircraft make these flights and ranges in real life?

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Reply #1 - Jul 6^th, 2004 at 3:29pm

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Use FS2002 flight planner to find out how far they are, then check the specs or google to find the range.
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Reply #2 - Jul 6^th, 2004 at 3:58pm

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As long as it stops at the correct cloud for gas Grin

Under ideal conditions these legs might be possable. But you might have a hard time trying to find pilots willing to fly them. Although I am not that familar with 737-900 I know that in the real world these legs are useally flown by 747's; L1011's; DC-10's; MD11's and a few 767-400ER. Altough the 737-900 might be able to make one of those legs But I think that it would be pushing the range a bit.
When you plan the flights look in the nav log it will tell you how much fuel is needed. But rember that does not count fuel for taxi or any apu use. And there is no fuel reserve 8)

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Reply #3 - Jul 6^th, 2004 at 7:43pm

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The 737-900 has the shortest range capabilities of all the 737NG's...
If you want to fly far away with a 737...choose the 737-700.

With 110pax, it can fly from Boston to Berlin, although you'll be flying on fumes when you arrive Wink

To answer your first question, YES...You can fly from LA to Honolulu with the 739, but you'd better pick "as the crow flies" direct routing

Straight line between LAX and PHNL measures 2217 nautical miles
Max. Range for the 737-900 is somewhere around 2.700nm, so pray that you don't have a strong headwind (more fuelburn) and travel light so you can cruise on high altitude. Long Range Cruise (LRC) speed for the 737's is around mach .76

You wont' make it between Honolulu and Tokyo though (not even with the 737-700) but flying between NY and Barbados should be just fine

Although, like Gary pointed out, it's not common to see the 737 do these long legs, if they do it's only Business Jets I assume. The aircraft has to be rather light with passengers and heavy on fuel load, and that's not economical at all.

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Reply #4 - Jul 7^th, 2004 at 1:15pm

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In real life I flew on a Privat Air 737 business jet non-stop from KEWR to Duesseldorf. Plane only carried 45 passengers in a business class configuration. One of my most enjoyable flights ever

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Reply #5 - Jul 7^th, 2004 at 1:35pm

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Those BBJ's have extra auxiliary fuel tanks in the cargo compartment, the max number of tanks is 9 for the BBJ and 7 for the BBJ2
These have a capacity of over 3.500 gallons of extra fuel, more than the total capacity of a 1. ½ wing tank, so the range of the BBJ's are far greater than the "commercial" 737's

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