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Table 14.11 Parameters for the calculation of the aircraft utilization according to equation (14.64)
kU 1 kU 2
source
h h
AA 1980 / NASA 77 3205 0.327
AEA 1989a 3750 0.750
AEA 1989b 4800 0.420
a
AI 1989
R < 1000 nm (1) 3994 0.754
1000 nm ≤ R ≤ 2000 nm (2) 5158 1.650
2000 < R nm (3) 6566 3.302
a
1.) AI 1989 gives an equation for calculating U a ,b .

U a , f was calculated in this case assuming t b − t f = 0.25 h

2.) R is the distance flown in the flight time t f

Fig. 14.4
0.6 Relative aircraft utilization U h , f
AI 1989 (3)
calculated according to equation (14.64) and
AEA 1989b parameters taken from Table 14.11 and
equation (14.64)
0.5 (14.64)
(14.74)
AI 1989 (2)

AI 1989 (1)
aircraft utilization
relative Flugzeugnutzung

0.4 AEA 1989a

NASA 1977

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 h 12
Flugzeit
flight time

The relative flight utilization U h , f calculated with the aid of the parameters from Table 14.11
is shown in Fig. 14.4. According to this, aircraft utilization increases with increasing flight
time. This corresponds to experience in practice: a large number of short flights cause more
ground times than a few long flights. Therefore, more flight hours can be flown with fewer but
longer flights.