Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport scenery for FSX

Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport (Arabic: مطار شرم الشيخ الدولي‎ Maṭār Sharm al-Shaykh al-Duwaliyy) (IATA: SSH, ICAO: HESH), formerly known as Ophira International Airport, is an international airport located in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Opened on May 14, 1968, the airport was originally an Israeli Air Force base and also served the small settlement of Ofira, before the territory was returned to Egypt following the Camp David Accords.

In 2008, the Egyptian Airports Holding Company announced plans to build a third new terminal at the airport. The company expects to receive design offers for before the end of September 2008. Ibrahim Mannaa, the director of Airports Holding Company, said that it is a move to meet the sizeable increase in passengers numbers at the airport that exceeded 28% during the first 8 months of 2008.

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In aviation, an Aeronautical Information Publication (or AIP) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization as a publication issued by or with the authority of a state and containing aeronautical information of a lasting character essential to air navigation. It is designed to be a manual containing thorough details of regulations, procedures and other information pertinent to flying aircraft in the particular country to which it relates. It is usually issued by or on behalf of the respective civil aviation administration.

==Overview==

The structure and contents of AIPs are standardized by international agreement through ICAO.  AIPs normally have three parts - GEN (general), ENR (en route) and AD (aerodromes). The document contains many charts; most of these are in the AD section where details and charts of all public [[aerodrome]]s are published.

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A320 overview



The Airbus A320 family consists of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger jet airliners manufactured by Airbus. The family includes the A318, A319, A320 and A321, and the ACJ business jet. Final assembly of the family in Europe takes place in Toulouse, France, and Hamburg,

Germany. Since 2009, a plant in Tianjin in the People's Republic of China has also started producing aircraft for Chinese airlines. In June 2012, Airbus announced plans to begin building the 319, 320, and 321 variants in Mobile, Alabama.[4] The aircraft family can accommodate up to 220 passengers and has a range of 3,100 to 12,000 km (1,700 to 6,500 nmi), depending on model.

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Background:

In the early 1970s, following the launch of the wide-body 747, Boeing began considering further developments of its narrow-body 727 trijet.  Designed for short and medium length routes,  the three-engined 727 was the best-selling commercial jetliner of the 1960s and a mainstay of the U.S. domestic airline market.  Studies focused on improving the 189-seat 727-200, the most successful 727 variant.  Two approaches were considered: a stretched 727-300, and an all-new aircraft code-named 7N7.  The former was a

Fuel calculation

Because of the large number of questions about the method of calculating fuel of the flights,
 I liked to share you this special educational calculates fuel lecture.

We can divide the fuel used for your flight into four sections, namely:
1 - Taxi Fuel (fuel used for taxi)

2 - Trip Fuel (fuel used for the flight on air).
3 - Reserves (fuel reserve).
4 - Extra (excess fuel).

* - Taxi fuel:
                   it is calculated fuel for the needs of the aircraft operating system, APU and taxiing to the runway. For example, Beoing737 fuel used for taxi operation is usually from 250 to 270 kg (taxi fuel information supplied by the Department of Operations)

* -  Trip Fuel:
                   it is the fuel using in your flight, starting with take-off, SID, Climbing, Cruising, Descending, approaching, star and landing. (We will explain later)

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The Airbus A340 is a long-range four-engine wide-body commercial passenger jet airliner. Developed and produced byAirbus Industrie, a consortium of European aerospace companies, which is fully owned by EADS, the A340 was assembled at Toulouse, France. It seats up to 375 passengers in the standard variants and 440 in the stretched −600 series. Depending on the model, it has a range of between 6,700 to 9,000 nautical miles (12,400 to 17,000 km). It is similar in design to the twin-engined A330 with which it was concurrently designed. Its distinguishing features are four high-bypass turbofan engines and three-bogie main landing gear.

Airbus manufactured the A340 in four fuselage lengths.

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The A330 is a medium-size, wide-body airliner, with two engines suspended on pylons under the wings. On the ground, the two-wheel nose undercarriage and two four-wheel bogie main legs built by Messier-Dowty support a maximum ramp weight (MRW) of 230.9 tonnes (509,000 lb), while the designed maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) is 230 tonnes (510,000 lb) on the A330-200 variant. An option allows a maximum ramp weight of 233.9 tonnes (516,000 lb) with a maximum takeoff weight of 233.0 tonnes (514,000 lb).
The airframe of the A330 features a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a wing virtually identical to that of the A340. The wings were designed and manufactured by BAe, which developed a long slender wing with a very high aspect ratio to provide high aerodynamic efficiency.  The wing is swept back at 30 degrees and, along with other design features, allows a maximum operating Mach number of 0.86.  The wing has a very high thickness-to-chord ratio of 12.8 per cent, which means that a long span and high aspect ratio can be attained without a severe weight penalty.  For comparison, the rival MD-11 has a thickness-to-chord ratio of 8–9 per cent. Each wing also has a 2.74 m (9.0 ft) tall wiglet instead of the wingtip fences found on earlier Airbus aircraft.