Travel$ense User's Guide (PDF, 139 MB) - NBAA

TRAVEL$ENSEDRIVE TIMES77Finally, check the drive times to and from the corporate airport. These valuesmay need to be adjusted from the default value for the local site situation. It iscritical to review these times, as they will be used in calculating the airporttimes if your input is a site time or conversely in calculating the site time if yourinput is an airport time.Edit Leg ETE and Refuel TimeYou optionally may edit the enroute times (ETE) and automatically invokedrefuel stops created by Travel$ense. The ETE shown includes any refuel timeand the default taxi time at each end. You can do so at any time by clicking onthe ETE column of the trip legs table for any of the business aircraft. Ideally, doso before airline data is obtained as major changes in ETE would affect theairline results Travel$ense obtains.Copyright © 1999, National Business Aviation Association, Inc.Travel$ense automaticallygenerates ETEs basedupon the aircraftperformance you definein the aircraft profilesdialog box and theairports your select. Ifwinds aloft, weatherdelays, or ATC delays areexpected to increase ordecrease the enrouteflight times, they can bechanged by typing thetime, using up/downarrows or the up/downbuttons.Of course, in the real world, all of the factors listed above can affect enrouteflight times. Immediately after selecting all corporate aircraft city pairs and allarrival or departure times, enroute flight times are calculated and displayed. Byclicking on any of the enroute leg times displayed, users can alter these times tobetter reflect actual conditions.If your enroute times are consistently and significantly off, adjust theperformance estimates for the aircraft in the aircraft database. Changes toaircraft performance will immediately show up on the current trip and on anytrips re-opened. Summary Reports will reflect changes to previously saved tripsonly if they are reopened and resaved.Enroute flight time estimates for business aircraft include user-defined taxi timeat the origin and destination airports. The default is five minutes at each end of