Thread: Official Fuelpad Thread
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jlu is offline jlu
2009-03-21 , 17:23
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Originally Posted by icke View Post
I just wanted to say 'thanks', too. I really like Fuelpad and enjoy using it - with the drawback that I actually have to pay the fuel at first.

My only remark is that I had to include a "virtual" first trip to tweak the average consumption calculation. In general I enter my data after filling up my car. So "Trip [km]" and "Fill [litre]" are historical data while "Km" is current data. Yet, the distance for the average consumption is calculated "Latest Km" - "First Km". Yet it ought to be something like "Latest Km" - "First Km" - "First Trip [km]". I added a virtual first trip with zero consumption to correct it. But as I said, I have no other complain.

Again, thanks for this nice program,
icke
Thanks for your comments. When I start with a new car, I always enter the first odometer reading. That way I know exactly the total distance I have driven with the car. Therefore Fuelpad works as it works. This is described in Fuelpad's help:

When you enter the first record into the database, you have probably just bought your car with an almost empty fuel tank. Since you probably don't know the distance from last refill, this first refill is not taken into account when calculating the average fuel consumption seen in the Information toolbar. From the second refill on, FuelPad automatically calculates the average fuel consumption.