Pilot Fuel Planning & Reserve Calculator
Plan fuel per leg from distance, groundspeed and burn rate, add taxi and reserve minutes and see if you have enough on board. You enter: Leg, Distance (nm), Groundspeed (kt), Burn (gph). It calculates: Time (hr), Fuel (gal). Summary tab: Total flight time (hr); Trip fuel (gal); Taxi/runup fuel (gal); Reserve minutes (day VFR min 30); Reserve fuel (gal); Total required (gal); Usable fuel on board (gal); Enough fuel?. Includes an Instructions tab, yellow input cells and example rows so you can overwrite them and start. Works in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice.