Fuel Management on Longrange Flights

[Boeingman]

Hello everybody,
currently I am the victim of a strong Connie addiction.
Last night I was flying my first real long range flight from Prestwick to Gander. About 75% into the flight both inner engines were stalling just the moment I was AFK for a short moment.
When I returned I noticed that the inner tanks were completely empty, so my conclusion is: the engine stall was produced by a sudden lack of fuel. I was not able to get the engines running again and finished the flight on the outer engines, which was quite fun.
So my question is:
What does the SOP suggest in terms of fuel management on a long range flight? Does every tank feed its own engine?
The crossfeed instructions from the manual didn't work to solve the proplem..

Thank you very much for your help.

[alan CXA651]

Fuel management question as been asked before , the same goes for fuel planning on flights , just search , but when all tanks have same amount each eng is feeding from its own tank , fuel calc different people use different ways , i have found on average that each eng uses 700gph on climb 600gph in cruise and about 500gph on decent , if any tank reaches 10% of fuel qty , it triggers an emergancy , also if you use as2016/asn for weather , once a route is planed , you can tune to 122.05 for enroute weather .
regards alan.

[flapman]

Hello,

I haven't seen it posted in the manual, but there are fuel system diagrams floating around the net.

Basically:
Have the fuel tanks set for "tank-to-engine" for takeoff and landing.
When you get into cruise climb, set up the engines to feed off tanks 1 & 4 only (The ones with the most fuel)
When the fuel quantities are equal for all four tanks, return to a "tank-to-engine" configuration until landing. At that point, all engines will run out of fuel at the same time. However, you will have been long on the ground by then .

EDIT: Just looked, the entire process of fuel loading and transfer decisions is described in detail on p.124 in the A2A Manual.

[Tomas Linnet]

Hello,

I haven't seen it posted in the manual, but there are fuel system diagrams floating around the net.

Basically:
At that point, all engines will run out of fuel at the same time. However, you will have been long on the ground by then .

haha