Fuel management software provider FuelerLinx has bolstered functionality for its subscribers with the announcement here at NBAA that it can now fully integrate flight planning capabilities from companies such as iFlightPlanner directly into its system. The new functionality will improve the validity of FuelerLinx’s fuel tankering calculator, which helps flight departments determine when it will pay for them to tanker fuel and when it will be less expensive for them to buy fuel at the destination to avoid ramp fees. “We have about 800 FBOs [in the U.S. and Canada] that participate with ramp fee avoidance data, to take into account in our tankering program,” said Fuelerlinx founder and president Kevin Moller. “The one missing link before was, we were calculating Great Circle routes with zero wind and ‘guesstimating’ what that burn was going to be.” Through the seamless integration of flight planning programs from providers such as iFlightPlanner, Fuelerlinx operators will receive custom data on domestic routes. “It gives them the ability to get surgically accurate fuel-burn profiles on a trip,” Moller told AIN, “the exact amount of fuel that is going to be consumed, so we can accurately run that against tankering and provide a very easily digestible suggestion on how much fuel to upload on every leg of the trip.”
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