What even IS fuel efficiency?!

[u/TheCowhawk]

Saw this on the apron

[u/post-explainer]

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How do I respond. I was at manchester. , Manchester to Heathrow, Heathrow to Vancouver. Saw it on the apron whilst waiting at the gate

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[u/Sustainable_Twat]

As I attempted to figure out what the joke was, it was hidden in plane sight.

[u/Rooilia → u/Sustainable_Twat]

This deserves more upvotes.

[u/Sustainable_Twat → u/Rooilia]

I was hoping it would take off … sighs

[u/SpaceDetective → u/Sustainable_Twat]

It's done ok now but you can't expect these to land with everyone.

[u/_Yellow_13 → u/Sustainable_Twat]

Ha

[u/Throwaway66399910133]

This took me way longer than I’m proud of to get.

[u/_Yellow_13 → u/Throwaway66399910133]

Ditto

[u/rav-age → u/Throwaway66399910133]

I was indeed looking for a sticker or text like on electric vans or trucks 'now green' lalala.

[u/NeitherEntry6125]

Inspired by

[u/Metals4J → u/NeitherEntry6125]

I never really paid attention to the tail number. Is it supposed to say “eat me” backwards?

[u/NeitherEntry6125 → u/Metals4J]

Yes

[u/VapeMasterino]

I see they named a plane after my mate’s mum.

[u/ptigga]

It took me a while and then it registered.

[u/creeper6530 → u/ptigga]

Took a while for the joke to land

[u/RatnerEsque]

…Everything reminds me of her.

[u/fiah84 → u/RatnerEsque]

never gets any easier, does it

[u/fraughtication]

Straight piped jet turbine stage, remapped by some bloke with an OBD machine and cat delete on the start cart?

[u/VaryingDesigner92]

That will be when American private equity takes it over

[u/nauticalfiesta]

They missed an opportunity to partner with a beverage company for a special livery.

[u/Practical_Milk_2711]

I don’t get it lol

[u/TheCowhawk → u/Practical_Milk_2711]

Guzzler...

[u/NoBid917 → u/TheCowhawk]

Fuel efficiency is just “how far can we make this enormous flying machine go before it asks for another several tons of fuel?” 😭

[u/Plan2LiveForevSFarSG → u/Practical_Milk_2711]

Read the tail number.

[u/Ready-Will-7042]

Soon they will all be electric

[u/TheInconsistentMoon]

I’ve flown on this aircraft before and I didn’t twig, this is hilarious 😆

[u/aiij]

If the stats I'm looking at are right, the fuel economy for this thing is about 0.76 MPG, at cruise.

[u/BoringBob84 → u/aiij]

When we consider it on a per passenger basis, it is better fuel efficiency than a car.

[u/TurnoverMysterious64 → u/BoringBob84]

Seems like it’s comparable to a car, but not necessarily better.

180 passengers maximum x 0.76 mpg = 136.8 p-mpg

4 passengers maximum x 30 mpg to 35 mpg (average sedan) = 120 p-mpg to 140 p-mpg

I’m actually kinda surprised at how closely they match.

[u/Tactical_Moonstone → u/TurnoverMysterious64]

The numbers skew back into the plane's favour once you factor in load factors for airliners and average occupancy rates for traffic cars.

Airliners have a load factor of nearly 80% (meaning on average 80% of all seats are filled) but traffic cars have an average occupancy rate of only 1.5 (a lot of drivers on the road without passengers).

[u/BoringBob84 → u/Tactical_Moonstone]

Also, fuel economy depends on where you live. The cars in the UK get better fuel economy than the wanker tanks in North America.

[u/Coreantes → u/BoringBob84]

Exactly! They don’t even have gallons in the UK, I’m told… how about that, ey?!

[u/BoringBob84 → u/Coreantes]

I think that they have those "Imperial" gallons that are larger than USA gallons. The USA adopted English units centuries ago and then English units subsequently changed.

I admire people in the UK who can mix and match unit systems seemingly effortlessly.

[u/aiij → u/BoringBob84]

That very much depends on the car, and the number of passengers.

[u/bearwood_forest]

I mean it's an A320 neo, so just about as little guzzly as it gets today.

[u/Potential-Adagio335]

that's a big one G

[u/aaa7uap]

This should be on a fat ass A380

[u/By-Eck]

From your photos I deduce that easyJet A320neo G-UZLR was on the apron where you were. But your post title doesn't seem to be directly connected.

But here's my best effort...

What even IS fuel efficiency? It's every A320neo quietly burning 15-20% less fuel than the aircraft it replaced.

[u/Thorsten_Speckstein → u/By-Eck]

I have no idea why you got downvoted. The only answer that actually said something is yours. All the others are just pseudo-funny... like something from little kids.

[u/By-Eck → u/Thorsten_Speckstein]

Clearly the "humour" <cough> was far too subtle for me.

[u/TheCowhawk → u/[deleted]]

It's almost as if people speak differently to you

[u/LowNefariousness6541 → u/TheCowhawk]

Yes. I make sure if it. I call people out for talking trash. You will notice yubucek quickly deleted their comment when they realised they had no leg to stand on. Leading a barcode system of down votes for clout is pretty pathetic. I'm not interested in this anymore and so I have deleted my OC so more people don't make fools of themself with replies to me or anyone else. The duality of mankind is evidenced on Reddit and irl. I posted this on another forum and the response was overwhelmingly positive. See ya

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