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Rory Noonan
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Drop Tanks

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I noticed that the fuel quantities in drop tanks are listed in minutes. I'm currently looking at the suitability of different aircraft for various mission profiles in a spreadsheet, and all of the other calculations are based on kilograms of fuel as listed in the database (using which, time on a given quantity of fuel varies with altitude and engine setting).

Does anyone know how I can convert the 'minutes of fuel' listed under drop tank DB entries into the more useful kilograms?
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One way would be to use Baloogan's wiki: http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index. ... rcraftList

There you can get details on each loadouts' weapons and, for example, figure out that the "370 USG Drop Tank" gives you 1125 kg extra fuel.
http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index. ... on?ID=1763
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For a rough calculation, 1 gallon is about 3 kg of fuel if that helps.
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Can we make aircraft jettison there dropped tanks…?
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Not yet.
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^^^ okay thank you sir… I'll quit looking…
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Found the answers I need in Baloogan's wiki. Thanks for the info guys!
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