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FarmVille Biplane Flight Cost Formula

Posted on June 6, 2010 1:25 pm by FarmVille Freak FarmGoddess

This week the FarmVille Biplane was introduced. The Biplane can be purchased for 30,000 coins and will instantly fertilize your entire crop with Insta-Grow. While the first flight is free, additional flights will cost varying rates of farm cash depending on how much time is remaining until your crops are ready to harvest.

There is no set price as it dependent on several factors including what crop you are growing, the time remaining, and how many plots you have.

FarmVille Freak Ingeborg hypothesizes that there is a formula used to calculate the cost of Biplane flights. Here is her thoughtful explanation described below. Thank you for sharing with us FVFreak Ingeborg.

“Hi,

I know the calculation for costs on the Biplane:

  • 2000 first hours = 1 FV$ (farm cash)
  • +1 FV$ for every additional 1000 hours.
  • Use 24 hours for 1 day, not the 23 hours Zynga usually uses.

→ Example: 100 plots of watermelons =9600 hours= 9 FV$.  If they are 50% ready it’ll be 4800 hours= 4FV$

It’s a theory, but it works every time I checked! A lot of people keep asking on the forums how to calculate the costs and I can keep answering but i think it’s more effective if FarmVille Freak makes a post about it!

The exact formula will be : (X*H*P)/1000-1= # FV$     ( round up! )
in which:
X= Number of plots
H= Grow time of the crop in hours (Carrots=12, Watermelons=96, Peas=24 etc.)
P= (100-percentage of the crop)/100. This means: if a crop is 50% ready P= (100-50)/100=0.5
If the crop is freshly planted P=1. If a crop is at 90% ready P=0,1

Happy farming ;)
FarmVille Freak Ingeborg”

Did this Biplane Flight Formula work for you in calculating the cost of your flight?

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181 Responses to “FarmVille Biplane Flight Cost Formula” »

  1. Gaya Says:

    i hate this so much :( why does it cost Fv cash? :’(

  2. Barbara Says:

    math.hurt.head.

  3. Idk Says:

    this is REALLY confusing Dx

  4. Maria Says:

    who gives a crap about this plane….. get the game fixed… am sick of losing gifts and that… this game really becoming crap with all the probs its got

  5. Informed Misery Says:

    The correct answer is: too much. lol.

    It’s a neat idea. I used my free flight on a crop of watermelons and got the first two mastery levels out of it with the help of a bushel from the farmer’s market. But I wouldn’t pay FV cash to do it again.

  6. Jeffrey Says:

    I’ll just wait until we can get the instagrow in eggs. The fuel was super hard to get at first, but now I have over 1,300… I’m sure when they see that no one cares instagrow will start being given away.

  7. Eric Says:

    this isnt fully correct… it is also based on number of plots.

  8. James Says:

    just use it once for free and then just keep it as a decoration :D

  9. pipwizard Says:

    oh my god jeffrey thats alot of fuel ive only got 299. And if u are not able 2 use a cred card 2 get farm cash use zong its a mobile payment ive used it twice its at the bottom of the page.

    But i luv the plane its good

  10. joanna Says:

    wonder if the price goes up when the volcano erupts ;p

  11. adele Says:

    i used my plane x 4 this evening on 323 plots of sugarcane and it cost me 2 farmcash per flight

  12. Kathy Says:

    yeah whatever , just give us more land ! (-:

  13. Santiago Says:

    wtf volcano??? hhahaha I dont get it…

  14. Dusie Says:

    I used it about 8 times today, and it only cost 1 farm cash per go – for raspberries and blueberries. It was 1 farm cash each time, that was all.

  15. Alexis Says:

    i have 444 plots and when i went to use the plane a second time it told me it would cost 40 fv cash. i was planting wheat i think. how is it some of you are talking about 2 or 3 fv cash?

  16. Barbara Winterton Says:

    This formula doesn’t work. I just checked a 14% grown crop of daffodils – a 48 hour crop – on 373 plots. The formula calculated 16FV$ but the requested cost by querying the bi-plane is 23FV$.

  17. Farmaniac Says:

    Is the volcano thing a Dante’s Peak reference?

    anyway, thanks for the info :)

  18. Merry Says:

    Thanks so much for the break down! I copied the info. so when I find somewhere to “place” my plane :-) I will try to remember and check it out after the freebie flight.
    :-)

    @ Eric I think you should read a little more carefully as the FIRST thing given in the formula is “X = number of plots” :-)

  19. HazyDaze Says:

    lol @ Joanna! :D (Santiago, think Icelandic volcano that grounded flights for weeks)

  20. Rajni Oberoi Says:

    Hi,

    It’s wonderful to have the Plane introduced by FV, I love the Plane – first flight is free – it was Gr8 Experience to have crops harvested instantly – but second time I clicked on it n did not know my FV Cash ie 2 FV Cash wld be gone. I was happy to see crops Harvested instantly though. But one does not have sufficient FV CASH as it is.

    We have to spend 30,000 coins to buy it – n if have to pay FV Cash each time, I wonder who can afford this ? We get 1 FV in AGES !! How can we afford to USE this Plane – Farm Ville must do something abt this issue – else it’s gonna ROT around in one corner of the FARM.

    Thanks

  21. Michelle Says:

    Eric – the formula above states X=plots.

    The plane comes in handy for mastery only or to reduce the chance of withering. I can’t play during the weekdays and have roughly a few hours each evening to play so all my crops have to be 16+ hour crops. With the plane I can do the shorter crops and get them out of the way (esp. since the mastery on ghost chilis is 9000)

  22. pauline moon Says:

    I think the plane is a con, does a great job but the cash isnt easy to get, i might sell mine.

  23. Katie Says:

    QUESTION: If you buy a plane and get your free flight, then sell the plane and buy a new one – do you get another free flight??

  24. Gertrud Says:

    Firstly, Ingeborg is a GIRL’s name…(Nordic origin), please correct original introduction.

    Secondly, Eric, Ingeborg noted that this formula includes # of plots.

    Thirdly, I hope when no one buys instagrow, that it will show up in Mystery Eggs or Mystery Gifts. In the meantime, it’s a neat decoration and looks good next to my Hot Rod Tractor, Seeder and Harvester! :)

    Happy Farming!

    –G.

  25. susan Says:

    It tells you how much you need when you click on the plane, so no one needs to do the math…….a waste of time for me.

  26. O Rly? Says:

    I appreciate this post. As someone who can do math, and isn’t a complete moron, I understood it perfectly. I don’t know if it’s 100% correct, but if it’s close enough, then cool!

  27. UncooKagoo Says:

    Based on this formula, (assuming I have 450 plots…not even a full farm planted) if I plant watermelons and use the plane immediately, it will cost me 43 fv cash to cause “instagrow?”

    Hardly worth it IMO… another terribad release DYNGA..

    Either make it avail for coins or figure out why the game is so choppy and dookie.

    thnx<3

    MATH:
    (450*96*1) / 1000-1=42.2 (round_up)= 43 FVC

  28. Colt Says:

    @Eric he does take the number of plots into consideration thats why he said 100 plots of watermelons = 9600 hours

  29. sharon Says:

    I LOVE MY BIPLANE BUT WONT BE SPENDING MONEY TO USE IT,HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE ABLE TO EARN THE FUEL TO USE TO USE THE PLANE OR USE FARMVILLE CASH

  30. gs2008 Says:

    it would be very nice, if u could make a calculator with the seeds and the plots, that could calculate the price.

  31. Jan Says:

    My complaint is Zynga didn’t say you couldn’t use the insta-grow on co-op jobs. They initially counted the crops, and then, a few hrs later, deducted them from our total. That’s not playing fair, Zynga.

  32. Janis Says:

    I noticed that it doesn’t matter how many plots you have planted. it is one fv cash for every 2 hours. So it you plant all strawberries it will cost 2 fv cash, because it is a 4 hour crop and you 1 cash for every 2 hours you want to speed up. If it is a 16 hours crop like peanuts it will take 8 fv cash. But if you plant 3 quarters of you plats with something short like strawberries and then the other quarter with something long like watermelon. It will only charge you the 2 fv cash because most of the field is strawberry.

  33. sinonskin Says:

    The equation was spot on! Tried it with calculator and then checked it by clicking on bi plane. Easy peasy! Thank you for the formula. Yes, I know it all bites to have to spend cash, but when has anything worthwhile NOT cost cash on FV? No way I am spending 23fv on my half grown watermelon, but nice to know what it would have cost. Best to stick to crops under 12 hrs..they are cheap!

  34. Crys7y Says:

    But if I buy a Biplane, I use it then sell it and re-buy it, will the game notice that it isn’t my first flight ? I’m just curious about :-?

  35. Ellinor Says:

    This doesn’t really matter but I actually think it’s “HER thoughtful explanation” not “his” since Ingeborg is a girls name.

    I will probably just use the plane one time. The only time I can see that it’s useful is when you do co-ops and they’re pretty lame. I want better rewards.

  36. Blueidegoldelox Says:

    Since it costs FV$ to purchase fuel, and you should really need the fuel to fly a plane….. it would make more sense to me to be able to either collect the FUEL or purchase FUEL to use the plane. Besides, I have nearly 1500 gallons of fuel, and I will never use it all……..Maybe if they gave us more SPACE I would have room for more plots so I could use my fuel!! Cute plane, but it’s just taking up space that I don’t have enough of in the first place!

  37. Ellinor Says:

    Just read you can’t use the plane for co-ops so it’s useless I guess.

  38. Zsazsa Says:

    Not true, Janis. I was 18 watermelon crops short for the mastery (96 hour crops) and I seeded 9. Used the plane and charged me 1 FVC. With the Farmer’s market bushel it all worked fine.

  39. Crystal Healer Says:

    I understand the formula, but I won’t be using it at those prices!! I want to get the biplane as the reward for the co-op job, so it will be just another decoration for me.

  40. Andrew Says:

    Well, math is the best.

  41. Michael Says:

    Katie, No you can NOT sell the plane and buy a new one to get another free flight. I thought of that right after I harvested, so I did sell mine and bought another one, but when I went to use it ,it said it would cost 38 FV cash. My plane is now a 60,000 Fv cash decoration.

  42. heather Says:

    there are to many neat things but they cost farmville cash. i am not buying anything in that sense. i have 2 kids that play and a sister and cant even afford to get my kids dogs back because it costs farmville cash .. need to change the rukles f the game some. it is fun but not to spend my money being a single mom i need groceries first!

  43. Rob Gould Says:

    I think I just got a tumor in my brain…

  44. Jen Says:

    can you address the gamers unite issue? what’s your take on it, do you believe the rumors, do you have the same opinion of the ignorant people who assume that just because you are part of the gamers unite community that you also use the snagbar? i know a lot of people who come to farmvillefreak and rely on this website for information. they value your opinion as a reputable source of farmville news. i think your opinion on this matter would be much appreciated.

  45. Anthony John Says:

    More land! More land! More land! More land!!!!!!!

  46. Cindy Huxley Says:

    Katie – no I wondered that and tried it, having got two planes from co-op jobs. Only one free flight on first one.

    Janis – that doesn’t work I’ve done 240 plots of sugarcane – 8hr crop – for 1FV.

    No-one needs to do maths for this. Plant what you want, click the plane it will tell you the cost. If you don’t like it then don’t accept, you can leave the crop to grow.

    I did the watermelon and yellow melon mastery’s when I got it, had not hing on any of them at the start. First payment was 23 FV, that wen down for each crop, to about 10FV I think.

    Since then I have done several other crops long and short term. The price varies but as I say you don’t have to accept.

    It is great for the co-op. Using it on carrotts with 2 others who clearly also used it we had gold in 2 hours.

    Generally I shall use it for crops that take longer than 2 days and/or have very high numbers needed for mastery.

  47. Cindy Huxley Says:

    To add to previous post – a good number of the crops have cost 1FV, these have been 1 day or under crops.

    If you don’t want to spend the money just don’t use it

  48. Rosemarie Brown Says:

    Why can’t we buy it with regular money..A lot of us can’t get enough of fv cash.I visit other farms all the time .It’s very hard to get fv cash.Would you consider changing this? Rosemarie Brown

  49. Wendy Says:

    They should have made it use fuel or coins not FV Bucks$$$.

  50. WilliamDGoose Says:

    If ewe are working on a co-op, ewe can finish it almost immediately and gain coins and XP real fast. This needs to be considered.

    If ewe also look at the cost of coin, it could be a good way to train FV $ for coins if ewe are saving for that manision.

    One of my stratagies is to be sure to plant a crop before going to bed and use the plane the next day so that its use gets cheaper overnight.

  51. TheCookieMonster Says:

    I’m not bothered as will not be BUYING MY MASTERIES. I will do it the fair way and earn what I get..

  52. Blubonnet Says:

    I have so many coins! PLEASE, let us use coins to use the biplane AND to enlarge our farms.

  53. Cheri Says:

    Hi –

    Personally, I’ll use the guessing formula posted first! I don’t think I will be able to figure out the X/H/P/?? one, lol.

  54. anne Says:

    This seems to work… I tried to insta-grow 513 plots of brocoli & lavender (both 2 day) as soon as I planted them and it said I need to buy more farmcash. I have 22 and that wasn’t enough.

  55. stella turner Says:

    i loved the free flight but tried it on peanuts and i had 7 fv cash wouldnt work, i wont pay to use it but someone said if u sell it then do the peanut butter job and get a free one each time u can get a free flight each time, dont know how true it is but im gonna try it , i got my first one for free :) happy farming

  56. Misty Says:

    I think the volcano reference was regarding the Iceland volcano.. whatever.. it was funny. And as for the FV cash, depending on what I plant, sometimes it costs 1 – 2 fv cash, there has been a few times it’s costed 3 or 4 fv cash.

  57. Jane Says:

    If we can buy the plane with coins, why can’t we fuel the plane with coins? I have over 11,000,000 coins – what am I supposed to do with all of them?! It seems that everything new is costing FV Bucks. Sorry, but I won’t buy virtual animals or biplane fuel with my hard-earned money!! Let’s put the fun back into these games and stop making them investments!

  58. Jay Says:

    Man, what a bunch of babies some of you are!!! “Waaaaahhh!!!!! I want it freeeeee!!!!!” This game can’t last or be profitable for Zynga if they just give everything away. So grow up and realize that in real life, things cost money, and in video games, they do too. Boy, I’d hate to see some of you at the grocery store whining about how much eggs cost. You want those free too? If you can’t afford to use the plane, YOU JUST CAN’T USE THE PLANE!!!

  59. Kim Says:

    I bought the plane used it twice and it disapeared. I have no plane to display on my farm. I’m not wasting another 30,000 to buy it again.

  60. Mer Says:

    The way I look at it is this………..it’s a game, #1 most of us have been playing it for free for who knows how long. To have to pay for something here and there if you don’t want to do it……..Don’t!!!!!!! And if your frustrated with some glitches that happen as they do in any video game, quit playing!!!!!! Video games aren’t free anyway, go buy one and see if it’s perfect. Ya you could get lucky but there more than likely will be glitches. Farmville is a game to be enjoyed and played for fun and meeting new friends. Why do so many people have to complain and gripe about it. If you don’t like it….quit playing!!!!!!

  61. Farmer Henk Says:

    To all who respond solely to whine: get a life. It is a free game. FVF & Ingeborg: Thanks for the calculation, very helpful. Pity I don’t have any FV cash to speak of.

  62. Meghan Says:

    I bought the plane for 30,000, used the free flight-then sold the plane. I then repurchased the plane and used the free flight again. This way I am using coins and not my farmville cash that is so hard to come buy.

  63. Carrie Says:

    Worked well for me!

    I calculated 6.99 FV – cost to me $6FV per the game.

    I don’t think I’ll use it for cash, but it’s good to know!

  64. Pam Says:

    I bought the plane found out it used FV cash and sold it!!!! This is ridiculous that they find more and more ways to make us use FV cash, I have millions of dollars/coins and can’t spend it cuz all the cool stuff can’t be purchased with it…it stinks!!!

  65. Stephen Says:

    My calculation is easy:

    Example:

    400 Plots
    Strawberries grown (4 Hours)

    400 x 4 = 1600 / 1000 = 1.6 FV (round up to 2FV)

    —-

    400 Plots
    Watermelons grown (96 Hours – 4 Days)

    400 x 96 = 38400 / 1000 = 38.4 (round down to 38FV)

    I have mastered 6 crops in the last 2 days and formula has been spot on.

  66. Heidi Says:

    Okay, I have to admit that I don’t mind the plane. Considering if I have a specific time designated to play on the computer I can “hurry up” my crops and get it over with.

    What I don’t like is not knowing for sure how much it will cost. I think they should come up with something more concrete where this is concerned.

    What I am getting very, very sick of is the incessant pop-ups. Seriously, Zynga? Do you have to give me three billion pop-ups for every single action? That is one thing that ruined YoVille for me.

  67. vic Says:

    Tried the free flight, then harvested the Tulips, plowed and replanted the tulips and tried the plane again, having 6 FV and it said not enough cash.

    This sounds like the work at home scam that is on the web. “I made $6,568 last month by working at home and you can get started for less than $10.00.

    Scam, THE THING COST ALMOST $400 TO GET SET UP, THE POSTAGE TO SEND IT TO YOU IS LESS THAN $10.

  68. Vicky Says:

    Cute plane BUT I won’t buy fuel for it. Why can’t we have a way to “earn” farm cash? Or receive it in eggs or gift boxes. It’s really unfair that those of us who choose NOT to spend our hard earned money on a game are getting screwed!!! There are so many things I would like to buy but can’t because I refuse to spend real money to play.

  69. Beth Says:

    I just wish that the plane cost fuel to run. With over 2400 fuel, it sure would help me lots!

  70. Chardy Says:

    that was about as usefull as a chocolate fire guard, more confusing than scool all that algibra rubbish haha

  71. Voiletmay Says:

    I used the time for free and sold it. I’ve also sold the other 4 planes I got from the co-op job. Not worth the space on my farm due to the high cost of use.

  72. jim Says:

    I just did a P & J co-op and we all used the biplane. It counted the plots we did. Finished it 7 hrs 36 minutes. It was the first flight so it was free.

  73. Alberta Says:

    Jeffrey how did you get 1,300 fuels. I luckly if I have 20 and I am always running out

  74. Ken Says:

    Is to a point I am gonna quit Farmville…..becoming no fun anymore. Especially when most things cost actual money now.

  75. Maureen Says:

    to #67 (Alberta)–the quickest and easiest way to get fuel is to collect the assorted items needed for a collection. whenever you see someone posting a collection grab what you can. I always try to coordinate posting them together with some of my neighbors so that we can collect off of each other, and therefore hopefully gain the items that we need. I often have 10 or more collections at once and that makes for a LOT of fuel!

  76. Shane Says:

    You will only get ONE free flight with the bi-plane.
    The first plane I bought from the market and used the free flight & sold it.
    The second plane I received for the new co-op job. No free flight at all & sold it also.
    The third plane I purchased from my market again & still no free flight.

    So it is just ONE free flight per account.
    Hope that helps!

  77. Heidi Says:

    I am not happy that more and more fun things reguire FV $. Seems a bit greedy on FV’s part.

  78. WILL Says:

    JUST SELECT THE PLANE AND SEE WHAT IT CHARGES YOU, IF YOU WANT TO PAY, DO IT, IF NOT, DONT. TAKES JUST A FEW SECONDS AND DOESNT REQUIRE AN ENGINEERING DEGREE.

  79. Marcia Stephenson Says:

    It sure would be nice if FV would tell us up front what the fuel cost would be BEFORE they let us pay COINS for something that is going to cost us FV $$$$$$$!!!!

  80. Lynn Says:

    This whole biplane & market stalls are really kind of irking me. I mean, I’ve got 30 masteries so far, and 28 of them were done without the market bushels, without the biplane, they were done by planting plots, 1 by 1, and harvesting them. I’ve got so many masteries because I’ve worked hard at them, and now- lots of others are going to get all these masteries and worked at least half as hard. Quite upsetting.

  81. ParengHammon Says:

    So to summarize the cost become lower depending on how close the crops are to being fully ready for harvest, right?

    That’s quite smart of them XD

  82. Lena Says:

    I used mine on my co op and had no problem with it.

  83. Matthew Says:

    That formula seems way more complicated than it should be.. I’ve been doing this since the day it came out…

    X=Plots
    H=Hours
    P=Percent.. (if needed)

    Watermelons..
    (X)(H)
    474(96)=45,504= 46FC
    474(96)(.51%)=23,307=23FC

    Pineapples..
    474(48)=22,752=23FC
    474(48)(.11%)=2,502=3FC

  84. Betsy Says:

    Jan I used it on my Co-op job about 10 hours ago and it still shows that those fields were harvested. How long did it take to reverse it?

  85. Me Says:

    @Janis You are very wrong and it does matter how many plots you have… I cant believe some people are so dumb..

  86. Thaddeus Says:

    to all the whiney complainers about fv having probs….farmville is a BETA, if u don’t understand what beta means you can find the definition in the official zynga fv forum….read it and learn and for gods sake stop crying like little girls!

  87. Henry Says:

    Have u noticed that a sheep is flying the biplane! look behind the wing! :D sheep like to fly. the balloon and now the biplane :D (it sucks that the plane flys for fV$) :(

  88. mystery Person... Hehe Says:

    Guys, if you haven’t noticed, within the last month or so Zynga has given out 36 FV CASH (If you were lucky and actually bothered to do it) oh and two withers each worth 10 FVC so basically they’ve given us 53 FVC!!!!!!!!!

    25 – Downloading the zynga toolbar
    3 – Stimulus Package 1
    3 – Stimulus Package 2
    3 – Bing
    2 – The family cow thing
    Two unwithers (20 FVC) – Stimulus Package 1 & 2

    SO ALL YOU GUYS QUIT COMPLAINING!!!!!!!! If there were about 80 million players, well 55 FVC costs US $10, so in total they would be spending at least $800,000,000,000. well actually… that’s a a really big number… lets just cut it down to at least 10,000 people. They would still be spending 100,000 US dollars!!!!!!!!

    SO STOP COMPLAINING!!!!!!!!!!!

  89. Miss Conservative Says:

    I have been wondering, if someone started playing farmville for the first time today and immediately bought expansions with Farmcash, and immediately started harvesting using the biplane (using farmcash) and bushels, how much farmcash would it take to do all the masteries this way?
    Basically, now that you can “buy” your way to elite status in a matter of a couple of days, what would the pricetag be?
    It wouldn’t be any fun to do it this way, but I bet the dollar amount would be staggering….. and interesting to know……

  90. Terry Says:

    I’m not certain, but I would be willing to wager that there’s more to the equation than just time. The level of the crop also has to come into play. Wheat, for instance, likely costs far less to grow than Red Wheat. I don’t feel like testing it myself, but anyone with more ambition than me care to try?

  91. 1hotroddie Says:

    Oh good Lord! I didn’t buy the plane yet, and now I’m glad I didn’t. Something that complicated isn’t what I want on a casual game…thanks but no thanks…I won’t be buying a plane…

    Another person had a good point too. WHERE are we going to put the dang thing? I don’t have much room as it is! A plane doesn’t take up a ‘little’ bit of space..

    Again, thanks but no thanks…

  92. ed bradley Says:

    your formula works. 432 plots, peanuts and 1 f/v$. 74% complete and biplane flew.

  93. Atif Says:

    I just tested out this formula with different number of plots and it worked now looking to develop a calculator for the ease of other farmers :)

  94. Cole Says:

    We shouldn’t have to pay farmcash, it should just be like however many crops you want to harvest times 40. So 300 crops would be 12 000 coins. Seems reasonable. But im not paying any more than 1 farmcash per flight when i can use fuel and get fuel by eggs, collections, and fertilizing.

  95. tHc Says:

    Thats why i used my free flight in conjunction with a bushel to plant a 4 day crop and get mastery in one go (watermelons), ten minutes instead of 4 days, first time id planted them to, had 451 plots, needed 450 so it was close

  96. Cole Says:

    Also, Jane, there is a Mansion that looks awesome and is huge that will be released soon. It is 5,000,000 coins. Use your coins on that! Or 10 Villas, lol.

  97. bob Says:

    i dont like the biplane!

  98. Raymondo Says:

    Very very annoyed at buying the plane only to find i cannot use it after the free flight as i have only 7FV!!!! WHAT A RIP-OFF ZYNGA.
    2 FV’s a flight would be ok but for what we spend allready on this game so come on Zynga play fair.

  99. JoJo Says:

    I think the plane is wrong.I worked hard to get a mastery in artichokes and a neighbor got his in 2 seconds. Sort of like buying a gold medal. A mastery sing will cost about $ 2 F V or 9000 hrs of work

  100. Spin THE Cheetah Says:

    I think it’s good that you have to pay fv cash to use it.
    Otherwise ppl will just cheat their way thru the masterys and co ops and then what’s the point in the game.
    Die hards who want to cheat enough will pay the money and keep Zynga making money.
    I think it’s a great idea.

  101. Emanuel Says:

    How much farm cash do you need to pay for less than 1000 hours. For example rasberries if you have 400 plots. 400×2=800?!

  102. Steve Says:

    @ post 90. I already have the mansion on my farm. What do you mean “will be released soon”? Am I the only one who has it?

  103. Atif Says:

    It costs you 1fv for 800 hours

  104. Henry Says:

    I hate that it costs FV$ but there’s a sheep flying it! Probs a black sheep cos there was a black sheep in the balloon! there’s a sheep flying the biplane :D

  105. Steve4310 Says:

    I like the plane for its aesthetic value. I have 4 already, and will have more in the days to come. I plan on building a small airport on my spare farm, with greenhouses as the hangars. It should be cool!

  106. Alex Says:

    Its strange I don’t experience any kind of issues with the game – never lost gifts and it always seem to be working perfectly I am at level 42 – I think people should stop complain and bitch around because this game is very popular and imagine all the work it takes to fix things and satisfy customers and besides the game is free as well. So accept and be happy that farmville is going to make level above 70 and 100 -

  107. lizzyhock Says:

    I think Stephen’s formula sounds easier to figure out.

    [Quote]
    Example:
    400 Plots
    Strawberries grown (4 Hours)
    400 x 4 = 1600 / 1000 = 1.6 FV (round up to 2FV)
    [/Quote]

    If I do decide to use it it will be for those, short hour crops that are hard to get back and rescue in time, like raspberries & strawberries, anything under 6 hours. But I love my plane, it’s pretty!

  108. krona Says:

    its much easier then that .. 1 FV$ for each 2 hours .. so easy so simple .. no need for all the math stuff ..

  109. nick Says:

    CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN ME THE TENT FORMULA I MEAN TUSCAN TENT FORMULA. I HAVE 51 CHICKENS ON THE FARM I GO AND INDIVIDUALLY CLICK ALL THE CHICKENS BUT I GET ONLY 6 EGGS IN THE TENT WTH

  110. prim chin Says:

    i planted some yellow melon..and i try to biplane..it…it did not work cause i don’t have enough farmville dollars and it was asking for credit card…i did not come to use credit to play a game,so this game as to be for farmville cash only…I now have only 4 farmville dollars,so how much would i need to grow my crop with biplane.

  111. Kathie Says:

    I bought the plane and harvested for a peanut butter & jelly co-op. I don’t know if I got the credit for the co-op. Then my plane disappeared!

  112. Big Farm Stud Says:

    @nick

    when you harvest your chickens you get eggs to post to the feed for your friends to collect, not you. you get eggs by asking people to send them to you. it takes 4 of each item, 4 eggs, 4 olives, 4 truffles, 4 milks to move up by 5 in the tent.

  113. Cherub Says:

    350 plots of wheat (just planted, 3 day crop) costs 24 f v$ for biplane … no thanks!

  114. Cherub Says:

    @ BIG FARM STUD … yes you do get eggs for yourself when you harvest a chicken and post to feed. you get one to share via the post and your egg favour count goes up by 5 automatically. Same for every other ingredient you harvest.

  115. Leela Says:

    @ Jeffrey: How were you able to acquire that much fuel?

    Also, my sis gave me an FV gift card purchased from a 7/11 store. Upon redeeming it, I was rewarded 10 fuel refills. It was good while it lasted.

  116. Britt Says:

    To answer the question to weather you sell the plane and buy a new one will you get another free try..well NO…they game is smart that way!!! Other wise we wouldnt all be complaining that it is too much FV$

  117. Joern Says:

    Hey farmvillefreaks!

    I’ve got a small question: I’m planning to seed 3 different crops on my farm. Will i be able to use the plane for all different crops at the same time (free flight)?

    cheers!

  118. Samantha Says:

    well, it worked for me, but here you go a little simpler…….
    the # of plots times the hours left for crops to grow equals……
    then subtract 2000, then divide by 10000.

    My example was I planted cotton which takes 3 days, so 72 hours.

    I have 317 plots SO 317 plots times 72 hours each makes

    317 x 72 = 22,824
    because the first 2000 hors cost 1 $fv then 1 for every thousand, we subtract 20000
    22,824 – 2000 = 20,824
    then divide by 1000 to see how many 1 fv dollar I need
    20,824 / 1000 = 20.824 so 21 fv dollars plus the 1 for the first 2000 hours makes 22 total.

    A little more explained though I don’t know about simpler. I tried
    Worked for me though :) ty

  119. carol coleman Says:

    This is not good enough for all to have to pay farmville cash as the people who bought this with coins should be able to use their plane too. wake up and give everyone an equal chance. i won mine in a co op and can’t use it cause don’t have enough farmville cash but have plenty of coins much the same as others. Give the majority a fair go

  120. superk Says:

    i like the plain idea but why the cost is in FV ?

  121. Marco Says:

    Well, unfortunately i just discovered how much it would cost after planting 480plots with yellow melons and watermelons.

    It sucks. The message onkly states “you do not have enough FV cash for this…”

    I dont´t know hou much it will cost, but it is more than the 41 fv cash i have. Why can´t it use fv coins???

    THIS SUCKS! Won’t pay for this.

  122. ben Says:

    do not bother with the biplane. it is probably the dumbest addition to fv vehicles if not the dumbest thing that uses fv$.

    what i did do was this:

    bought the biplane the first hour it came out.

    just today, i planted an entire field of yellow melons: 500 in all.

    then i used the biplane to instantly grow them. it is cool to watch the plane buzz around. make sure you shrink your farm so that you can see everything birds eye to see the plane buzz around.

    then just as the message that i have one bushel of melons, i go into farmers market and use that one bushel for personal use. now mastery is x2.

    in one harvest, i mastered yellow melons (which would have taken over a week).

    i then sold the plane and repurchased it for 30k coins (i have close to 9 million so 30k is nothing). i click the plane to instant grow and an applet pops up to say that it will take $4fv to grow instantly.

    so, selling the plane then rebuying it does not ‘reset’ the plane to get its free initial instant grow. so…i just deleted my second plane since it is useless to me until they change their fertilization protocol.

  123. shreya Says:

    does any one knows how to get more farm cash
    n how much fuel do weneed to fly the biplane
    tell me plzz

  124. Talzhemir Says:

    The biplane is a great example of something that’s pretty cool, and doesn’t cost Cash. It costs 30,000 Coins.

    The biplane can also be acquired for free, without paying 30,000 coins. You just have to put in the effort to win the Gold on the Peanut Butter & Jelly Co-Op challenge.

    To do this, you have to decide out who’s going to grow peanuts and who’s going to grow berries.

    That’s a great opportunity to practice a little bit of real-life interpersonal skills such as communication and courtesy, and, it takes a little bit of math. How many people does this co-op job take?

    After you’ve used up your one-time freebie, more red biplanes can be sold off for 1500 Coins.

  125. Nils Says:

    Thanks, this is helpful!

    So far, I’m unable to say if the formula is accurate, but given it will prove to be, I will make use of the plane for the following:

    As I have a window of about 7.5 hours per day for accessing FV, it is nearly impossible to do 8- and 10-hour crops. But if I let them grow for a few hours, I can get them ready for just 1 FV-$, which is IMHO a reasonable price.

    Example: 10-hour crop on 548 plots is 5 FV-$. Waiting for about 6 hours 24 minutes gets them to 64%, the remaining 36% should cost 1 FV-$ if the formula is accurate.

    Math: (0.548*10*0.36)-1=0.9728

  126. Deaf_Jenna Says:

    According to the given information posted by Ingeborg, the correct formula to use should be as follows:

    [ (X*H*P) - 2000 ] / 1000 = FV Dollars needed

    Hope this helps :)

  127. Deaf_Jenna Says:

    CORRECTION!! I left out a step lol. Sorry about that. HERE is the formula:

    [ (X*H*P) - 2000 ] / 1000 + 1 = FV Dollars needed :)

  128. Kelly Crutcher Says:

    I bought the biplane and have had it on my farm for a month without using it. I looked on a site today, found out it cost farmcash to fuel it after the free flight and didn’t bother with the free flight. I sold the damned thing. Piece of ****.

  129. Rainbow Champion Says:

    I purchased a second bi-plane but I was not allowed a free first flight. So don’t be fooled by that. I have helped out on several co-ops with the use of my free flight and then letting the crop grow for a while. You still have to pay the fv cash but it’s a lot cheaper when the crop is closer to being grown.

  130. Kasey G Says:

    Farmville is becoming such a stupid game now because of all the **** they nickel and dime you on. You want golgi berrys? Go the 7-11! You want to use the bi-place? Buy FV cash… you want any cool buildings? Sorry you can’t afford them! This game isn’t fun anymore. I’m beginning to stop playing it as much because i can’t do it anymore. Majority of players are college students and broke if they’re normal…. where the hell do they think im going to spend a ten dollar minimum at wal mart on a farmville card when I have gas, bills, and food to pay for!

  131. samivel rajesh Says:

    zynga trying to earn more cash through farmcash…..
    this is the real moto of biplane…..in farmville……

  132. Lil Nan Says:

    This formula does not work. Planted 363 plots of grapes and so far has been 0% – 13 $FC, 1% – 12 $FC, 11% – 11$FC. Did they up the cost with this last update?

  133. jason Says:

    just tested 55 grape plots (24 hours) costed 1 fv — calculator is off and that would be 1320 hours

  134. Miss Conservative Says:

    They MUST HAVE updated the price, because I kept records of how many plots I could seed with various crops for 1 farmcash. I just e-mailed Zynga because changing the price midstream is really not ethical in my opinion. Especially when I just bought a bunch of farmcash to get me to the higher levels quicker now that there is an incentive to get there. This calculator no longer works… (it used to though).

  135. Hansel Says:

    i was never good in math so i rather, not even buying it… and keep doing what i do!!! and its funny i only bought once with my debit card and never again used it… and just started… talking bout 2 weeks i started… and doing good…

  136. jerseygirl Says:

    my biplane is already rusting…don’t expect I’ll ever have enough FV cash to use it. too bad ! it’s kinda neat to se it fly around the farm.

  137. Bee Says:

    Methinks you forgot a “)” — the 1000 should be 100)…..

  138. Lynnette8 Says:

    Sorry your formula didn’t work for me.

    I had 29 FV$ and opted for the corn based on your formula as I want to unlock the posole corn.

    I planted 400 plots of corn (72 hour crop) the Biplane says it requires 47 FV$ but your calculation said 28$. So I waited to morning and they are now at 13% and the plane wants 42 FV$.

    Looks like I will have to wait longer.

  139. sally ann davies Says:

    this reely sux no one can arrofrd it when they are at these lower levels in the game it is stucurally unfair

  140. forevrloca Says:

    The formula is not correct. I just planted cucumbers which is a 24 hr plant. I have 466 plots. According to the formula:

    (X*H*P)/1000-1= # FV$ ( round up! )
    in which:
    X= Number of plots = 466
    H= Grow time of the crop in hours = 24
    P= (100-percentage of the crop)/100. = (100-0)/100 = 1

    (X*H*P)/1000-1= (466*24*1)/1000-1 = 10.184 (rounded up to 11)

    However, when I clicked on biplane, it said that it would cost 16 farm cash. That’s a big difference. Does anybody have a formula that actually works?

  141. Terri Says:

    I don’t even see where it says how much u need. It just tells me I need more farmcash… :(

  142. Minase Says:

    What if I planted 450 (Black Berries) which is a 4 hour plant then the total will be 1800 hours! Will it still coz Farmville Cash if the total didn’t reach 2000 hours?

  143. flo Says:

    when i cliick on the plane it do not tell how much fv dollars u need. what’s up? i got 28 fv dollars and it’s says i need more. the plane is full of crap.

  144. drkmsnger13 Says:

    THE PLANE IS A BIG WASTE OF TIME, SPACE, FV CASH AND COINS…unless you got the biggest land and plant yellow mellons (528 coins per plot) spend the 30,000 coins and get a whole lot more!!! thats the best use for it….hope it helps.

  145. Heather Says:

    well going by the calculation, unless im doing it wrong, planting my 544 field of sugar cane and growing it would be 4FV in reality its costing me 18FV. and randomly the last time i did it it cost 17FV…wtf?

  146. Heather Says:

    ok so here we go for lavender…

    (X*H*P)/1000-1= # FV$ ( round up! )
    in which:
    X= Number of plots = 543
    H= Grow time of the crop in hours = 48
    P= (100-percentage of the crop)/100. = (100-0)/100 = 1

    (X*H*P)/1000-1= (543*48*1)/1000-1 = 25.064 (rounded up to 26)

    hmmm, so all planted, and i can tell you that i have 63FV and its saying i dont have enough. formula is total rubbish

  147. Dave Says:

    NOOOOOOO…. this formula doesn´t work…. My 31 farmcash isn´t enought to grow up my 476 plots of cabbages :( Now ill have to wait 2 days to havest… please check or delete this formula…

  148. blackjack Says:

    I hate dat plane if is like that they should make $2 by level or people can send u free FV cash sh1111t…

  149. Sara Says:

    A. My plane doesn’t tell me how many FV cash I need, just says I don’t have enough.
    B. I have used it to finish co-ops with no problem. Not sure why others are saying it didn’t count for them?
    C. If you do Swagbucks searches, you can now spend them on a gift card for Farmville cash – something I’m going to start doing.

  150. Marcus Says:

    This Formula Gave Me An Insane Number!

  151. simon Says:

    me want free

  152. geetenah kharbanda Says:

    i must like it if it take coins only
    i hate to spend fv cash

  153. rivie Says:

    no it doesnt work…i have 22 farmville cash and wouldnt let me use plane on my watermelons said not enuf cash

  154. anna Says:

    i used a biplane on farmville and it costs coins, the first time i used it it was free i planted peas it worked the scond time i planted grapes it said do you want some more fv cash then i was smart the next time, each level ur finished at 1 cash appear on the top of the screeen

  155. anna Says:

    y cnt they send fv csh its not that complicated if we could send lots of stuff then we could send fv csh

  156. XXSUPERHEROXX Says:

    Farmville is real starting to suck 2,000,000 to expand to the new 26×26 a bi plane to costly to use greed has made people leave the app and now i think ill just abandon my farms it’s not fun anymore.

  157. Rdizzy Says:

    This formula no longer works because they raised the amount of FC that it costs just recently within the last 2 weeks so, dont whine to the guy that made the formula, because it did used to work perfectly.

  158. Cliff Says:

    Farmville formula for biplanes costs above not longer works. Please post if anyone finds a newer up-to-date formula.
    Please and thank you

  159. Klippan Says:

    how lame that they have changed it. it was expensive enough before, now i’ll never use the plane again

  160. FViller Says:

    ok one thing i think everyone needs to understand is….. This game, altho “free” and addictive. is designed to make people want to do things faster. yes you can do most everything without paying for your FV cash and stuff. however, the people who make this game, WANT THEIR MONEY!!! it stands to reason that they are going to make it so that something that is so convenient is going to cost something that is not easily available. hence FV cash is what it costs. i read a lot about people complaining that they make it difficult for those who dont want to spend their real money on the game. thats the point!!! they want you to spend it. thats how they stay in business and keep creating new things for us to all enjoy. the people who DO pay are making it so that people who DONT pay can have new items…
    life isnt free and if you cant afford it, then dont do it. but dont complain about the fact that the makers want to earn something for their time and effort in producing a game that is readily available to play for free if you decide to wait instead of wanting things now.
    ok rant finished
    enjoy your farming people :)

  161. Bob Hayles Says:

    Farmville, and Zynga, and Facebook, and my blog even, are BUSINESSES, not charities…and BUSINESSES purpose is to make money…real money…for the owners.

    Quit your bitching about the cost of flying the plane. Pretend its McDonalds…you don’t want to pay for a Big Mac, don’t order one…they won’t take a Happy Meal toy as payment…treat Farmville the same way…you don’t want to pay for what the COMPANY Zynga provides, don’t buy it.

    Damn…bunch of whiners and criers…

    Bob H

  162. Giorgio Says:

    Used the free flight then tried to use it on a crop of corn and it wanted 75 FV cash!

    Is tthis another way to try and get us to spend real money. Not going to happen.

  163. HelloKitty Says:

    The bi-plane sucks. I have almost 66×66 land equivalent. Add me. I need more neighbors. Thank you.

  164. Selena Gomez Says:

    farmville iz m favourite game but leveling up iz very hard sooooo oh forget it i need 2 level up faster n dis biplane izn’t any gud huh …… lol …….. :( …… =)

  165. Davjam Says:

    This isn’t quite exact, as sometimes the calculated figure doesn’t quite match what Zynga want to charge, but it’s close enough:

    (X*H*P) / Z = C

    X= Number of plots
    H= Grow time of the crop in hours
    P= (100-percentage of the crop)/100
    Z= 280 . This is the closest I could get to the constant without much more time and experimenting.

    If C is less than 1, but more than 0, then C = 1. If it’s above 1, round to the nearest integer. So, if C = 1.4, round down so C = 1 . If C = 1.5 , round up so C = 2 .

  166. James Says:

    this formula seems to work better thanks
    btw why complain lets look at the bright side
    if you wait a couple days and play the game like normal you should get a couple FV cash and you can use this formula to calculate the costs
    blue berries can make you some money so you can grow up to 168 of them and that more than you had before ;-)
    or rasberries 336
    don’t complain everyone has the same rules as you!

  167. varun Says:

    hi .. i have 629 plots .. i planted grapes … now i have 21 hours to go …

    when i applied this formula, i got 629*21/1000 – 1 = 12.2 = 12 (rounded off)

    but when i clicked on the biplane, it said it would cost me 45 fv cash

    can you explain this?

  168. Davjam Says:

    That’s with the old formula which no longer works, and the time it estimates seems to always be rounded to the nearest hour. Using the formula I posted, my estimation is that you checked at about 12-13% growth which would be:

    629 * 23 * (100 – 12) / 280 = 45.45

    or

    629 * 23 * (100 – 13) / 280 = 44.95

    Rounded to the nearest integer, that would give 45FC.

  169. Jessica Says:

    I think zynga wants to get rid off the freeloaders(us normal folks that don’t spend our paychecks on farmville cash) by turning everything good in the market into products only available in exchange for farmville cash instead of coins.

    Like when I first saw the biplane, I was like ‘Woah! thats great :D ’.
    But I think it’s just there to literally make people buy farmville cash….

  170. john Says:

    **** this ****. Farmville is a bump! What’s the point of paying lots of FVCash when you can use this **** for free! Get a life! YOU ****S!

  171. Gina Alessia Says:

    @everyone that says that it’s ok to pay money because the game can’t be free: FarmVille has millions of users and visitors to the website. Do you know how much money they make from advertising? You have no idea.

    The point is that they always want more and more money and they will ruin the fun.

    I agree with the paid things. But they should make them available for free, just to be harder to obtain. Do you want it fast? Pay. Don’t want to pay play longer, do more things in the game.

    My .50c

  172. Nayab Says:

    Good
    I agree with you.

  173. Will Says:

    Steps to making money:

    1) Plant square melons

    2) Buy a biplane for 30 000

    3) Use the plane to insta-grow all the crops

    4) Harvest them (making 150 000 coins)

    5) Keep repeating until you are rich.

  174. sahilpocker Says:

    will I get a second free flight if i buy another niplane?
    if so,
    i hav 402 plots. i can plant yellow melons and i will get 323 profit for each plot and total i will get 1,30,492 coins.and the profit will be
    1,30,492 – 30,000= 1,00,492!!!!!!!
    i can repeat this and i can get a lot of money and xp!!!!!!!!!
    please reply whether itll work! :)

  175. wasifa sarwar Says:

    i no hv cash fv …………..i love so to much but the i need 350 cash 4 me plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz now i am very said………….plz send me 350 cash 4 me plz help me thank you

  176. aspcacrazy18 Says:

    Has anyone noticed the little advertisements that say 2 free farmcash
    once in ah while they are at the bottom of my screen when im playing farmville they are all free and you do get the cash thats how i get a lot farm cash!!!!!!!!!!!!

  177. b Says:

    I think there might be a minimum cost of $3, because when I plant my ghost chilis (163 plots x 6 hours = 978) and then try to biplane them immediately, according to your equation it should only cost $1 but instead it costs $3.

    Actually, come to think of it, this didn’t work for my wheat either. About 200 plots x 12 hours = 2400, but it cost $9 to biplane them immediately.

    Hm, maybe they have raised prices since you originally posted this.

  178. macaaroni Says:

    I was heading to bed and didn’t want to wait for my crop to finish. It only had about 30 minutes to go so I figured I’d let the plane handle it… I clicked Instant Grow and the dialogue came up showing the total cost would be 43FV$. This new window was new for me since it used to only apply to crops, but now trees are included. I knew immediately that I was going to spend 43FV$ so I read carefully and saw that it only wanted 1FV$ to finish the crop! I was relieved and decided to go ahead and just apply the Grow for my crops, NOT the trees.

    I clicked the CROP option.

    43FV$ later, my entire farm is ready for harvest :(

    I’ve now learned there is a green checkmark that is ON by default, that must be unchecked before clicking anything else. I was so upset, things like that make me want to burn the place down and leave the farmer strung up in the barn.

  179. allen Says:

    i really need 400 farmville cash hope someone will help:):):):):)……:():

  180. Nancy Bowman Collins Says:

    I am so pissed because of this plane fast grow crap and it does produce my melons full grown and ready to harvest then it says my farm is out of sync then I am back where I started. Fix the dam thing already. I know how to do programing so do even think it takes along time. Just do it.

  181. naveen Says:

    how could i fly the biplane the second time………i am not getting it

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