Why am I getting "NaN"s all over the place?

NaN or nan means "Not a Number" in the computational universe. It means we have a problem with zeros somewhere.

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Written by Graham
Updated over a week ago

AvPlan will occasionally show NaNs for fuel and time calculations. This is almost certainly because there is some missing information in your aircraft definition.

Please check the following:

  • Fuel density. If it has has not been set, AvPlan cannot work out the weight change associated with fuel burn.

  • TAS values. If the cruise TAS has not been set, you will see a bunch of zeros in the TAS/GS columns, and nans elsewhere (time = distance divided by speed... an impossible calculation if the speed is zero)

  • Your aircraft doesn't have a callsign. AvPlan identifies your aircraft's performance etc by reference to its callsign, so if you forget to give it one, then things wont go well at all.

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