Method of providing a volume-mass law for fuel consumption

A method of providing a volume-mass law for determination of instant mass fuel flows which are fed by a dosing feeder from a fuel tank to an engine in a helicopter, the method of providing said volume-mass law for determination of fuel flow rates from the fuel tank to said engine, to allow calculation of remaining flight time, point of non-return and fuel quantity left in the fuel tank till landing, including:

• a step of metering:
• a permittivity ξ of fuel in the fuel tank, a temperature TR of fuel in said fuel tank, and a step of determining a sample type of fuel with a given density ρ0 in said fuel tank by associating the measured permittivity ξ and temperature TR of the fuel in said fuel tank to at least one data pairξ, T of different types of known fuels, said method being characterized by the further steps:
• said method comprising the steps of:
• detecting temperatures Tm and measuring instant volume flow rates Qm at defined times tn, tn−1 . . . of the sample type of fuel at said dosing feeder,
• providing either fuel volumes VR and temperatures TR or fuel masses at defined times tn, tn−1 . . . in said fuel tank,
• calculating real-time parameters a, b of an equation ρ=aT+b from either fuel volumes and the temperature TR or fuel masses in said fuel tank, with the parameter ρ for real-time densities ρn, ρn−1 . . . at defined times tn, tn−1 . . . of a time interval Δt from tn till tn−1, the parameter a being a gradient constant and the parameter b being the offset for said given sample fuel, and
• integrating said instant volume flow rates Qm during said time interval Δt at a value Tm of said temperature, calculated by the mean of said equation for real-time densities ρn, ρn−1 . . . at defined times tn, tn−1 . . . for providing the volume-mass law.