App Detail » Bingo Fuel

What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Fixed "# of Engines" label that was truncated on some devices.

App Description

** iPad Version also available as "Bingo Fuel HD" **

** PLEASE NOTE -- THIS IS ** NOT ** A BINGO GAME! **

Welcome to Bingo Fuel!

Delays, holding patterns and diversions are typically not an everyday occurrence in aviation, but when one or all of these do happen, quick and accurate fuel numbers are critically important.

The term "Bingo Fuel" has its roots in military aviation, but has become widely accepted in all phases as representing the critical fuel number where a decision must be made -- to divert to an alternate, continue to the destination or make an intermediate stop. Simply, your "Bingo" fuel number means that you cannot accept any additional holding or delay and still land with the regulatory amount of fuel required. Many rules of thumb and computational methods exist to compute "Bingo," and this application allows for their use -- while also providing a standardized framework to take the difficulty out of figuring the Bingo Fuel number.

The application has three main components -- Burn to Destination, Calculate Bingo and Time To Hold. The Burn to Destination tool computes fuel burn with pilot entry of groundspeed, fuel flow and distance. Calculate Bingo figures your Bingo Fuel number with pilot entry of alternate fuel, reserve fuel, fuel burn and a safety margin, if you choose. Finally, Time To Hold figures the number of minutes you may hold with pilot entry of fuel on board, fuel flow and the bingo fuel number. Detailed instructions for using the application are also provided in app - no internet connection required!

These tools may be used by themselves, or in combination - values are auto-filled between the tools for your convenience! Burn to Destination is auto-filled to Calculate Bingo, and the Bingo Fuel number is auto-filled over to Time To Hold.

Designed by a commercial airline pilot, much care was taken to make Bingo Fuel clean, user-friendly and efficient. Enter your values, get results and use that information to safely complete your flight.

Clear skies, and thanks for choosing Bingo Fuel!

** NOTE ** Please follow your applicable regulations for fuel planning and use of portable electronic devices in flight!

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Blog: http://CGOApps.wordpress.com

Media / Press Coverage:

** Video Demonstration of the Bingo Fuel App @ http://www.StuckMicAvCast.com **

** Developer interview and history (Episode 35) @ http://AviationCareersPodcast.com **

** Featured on the AirlinePilotGuy Podcast (Episode 068, app specific content starts at around 57:00) @ http://AirlinePilotGuy.com **

App Changes

• April 18, 2013 Initial release
• May 04, 2013 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• May 06, 2013 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• May 26, 2013 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• May 28, 2013 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• July 02, 2013 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• July 13, 2013 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• July 23, 2013 New version 1.1
• July 31, 2013 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• August 05, 2013 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• September 01, 2013 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• September 03, 2013 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• November 28, 2013 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• December 01, 2013 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• December 21, 2013 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• January 01, 2014 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• March 07, 2014 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• March 18, 2014 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• October 27, 2014 New version 1.5
• November 23, 2014 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• December 09, 2014 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• March 17, 2015 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• May 04, 2015 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• December 28, 2015 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• January 05, 2016 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• July 29, 2016 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• August 19, 2016 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• November 26, 2016 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• November 29, 2016 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• June 15, 2019 New version 1.6