Fuel Volume - What's not right here?

Greetings, fellow PBEMers and other folks.

I recently bought MegaTraveller to replace my "Classic" Traveller set of
materials. I like MT very much, and am very impressed with the wealth of
information contained therein.

However, I have run into a problem. I was going through the craft
descriptions in the Imperial Encyclopedia, and was idly punching some
numbers to figure out jump ability and power plant fuel consumption.
I received a rude shock when the numbers didn't add up. Please let me
know if I am doing something wrong, so I can rest easy at night. :-)

For example, let's look at the give TL15 Scout/Courier design.

864 Mw / 6.0 MW per KL of power plant = 144 Kl of pp.
144 Kl of pp. * 0.009 Kl of fuel req'd per hour/ Kl of pp. = 1.296 Kl fuel/hr
1.296 Kl fuel/hr * 24 hours/day * 30 days endurance = 933.12 Kl fuel
Listed fuel size is 515 Kl. What gives?

For fun, let's try the TL15 Fighter design.

186/6.0 = 31
31 * 0.009 = 0.279
0.279 * 24 * 5 = 33.48 KL fuel
Listed fuel size is 33.6 Kl. Close enough.

What's the problem here? I tried it for some other designs, but the numbers
still don't match. Someone, please help.

Nicholas Sylvain    (sylvain$[email removed] OR [email removed])

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