ETOPS/EDTO Threshold

Hello,

As you know, Tri and Quad engines aircrafts are subject to EDTO rules if they are flying more than 180 minutes away from an adequate airport. Unfortunately, when I build an ETOPS/EDTO flight plan with SimBrief, the system takes a 60 minutes threshold even when selecting a Tri or Quad engines aircraft.

Would it be possible to make the ETOPS/EDTO threshold user selectable, within the aircraft profile or in the ETOPS Scenario window ?

Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Philippe TORNE

Hi, we will look into this for the next update perhaps.

Thanks,

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Hello,

That would be awesome. Looking forward to see this very useful improvement. Thanks a lot for your answer.

Best regards,
Philippe TORNE

Actually, for US operators, tri-jets comply with ETP planning when more than 90-minutes away from an adequate, and the speed schedule is Dual E/O and nothing else. For US Trijet operators, they only need to comply with ETOPS/EDTO planning when when beyond 90 minutes if they are an all-passenger operation (and there are none of those anymore).

For all-cargo quads, I believe their OFP provides both a Single E/O and a Dual E/O ETP when beyond 90 minutes. US all-pax quad operators had to comply with the ETOPS scenarios when beyond 180 minutes; thus when they operated them, the US Pax Quad operators limited their aircraft to no more than 180 minutes from an adequate to not have to comply with quad ETOPS/EDTO; they just complied with ETP planning (Single and Dual E/O only).

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Just as a follow-up, we have now released version 2.19.0 which includes an ETOPS threshold option:

Best regards,

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Amazing. Thanks for this update !

Best regards
Philippe TORNE

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