Hello,
The maximum cargo weight of iniBuilds A380 RR and EA should be 113319lbs/51401kg.
Thanks
The values were set by iniBuilds themselves:
It does appear the person who came up with the profile at iniBuilds doesn’t know what he was doing and/or how Simbrief works, as the maximum cargo value does indeed also apply to luggage, meaning Simbrief will never exceed max_cargo / bag_weight i.e. 10300 / 50 = 206 bags, regardless of how many passengers are on board.
For example, this is what you get on the XML endpoint with a passenger count manually set to 400:
<oew>628000</oew>
<pax_count>400</pax_count>
<bag_count>400</bag_count>
<pax_count_actual>400</pax_count_actual>
<bag_count_actual>206</bag_count_actual>
<pax_weight>175</pax_weight>
<bag_weight>50</bag_weight>
<freight_added>0</freight_added>
<cargo>10300</cargo>
<payload>80300</payload>
<est_zfw>708300</est_zfw>
Notice how 400 bags were “requested” but only 206 were “loaded”.
I suspect the profile as designed to try and limit the amount of extra “freight” that can be added on top of passenger luggage, but not in a way that works.
Also, I am not sure that’s realistic, either; as I understand it, nowadays airlines will carry some amount of commercial cargo on top of passenger luggage, but I don’t have any A380-specific data that could give a realistic figure of what a typical/maximum extra freight value should be.
The airframes should be linked to someone’s Simbrief account at iniBuilds, so they can correct it without requiring intervention on Simbrief’s part, thus I would recommend contacting them about it.
Regards,
Tim
FWIW, this was reported to iniBuilds already:
Regards,
Tim