"Gene Nygaard" wrote in message
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:55:34 -0700, "Tarver Engineering"
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"John R Weiss" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote...

And you start with pounds as the basis and convert to have the fuel
vended,
no matter what units of volume are used. Then the weight of the
airplane is
checked to see if the fuel got onboard.

So, the FE begins with a takeoff weight, calculates the fuel to be
ordered
and leaves the weight on the dash for the pilot to cross check.

Nope! It is apparent you don't know at all what you are talking about.

In "a high reliability sysetm" such as that in a 777 or 747-400, the
fuel
vendor
is simply told the "final fuel" figure in kilograms

My goodness Weiss, you mean what I wrote in the first place is completely
correct. At least my explanation of the process leaves the glider 767
safety report as a possibility.

You must be forgetting the first problem with the Gimli
glider--inoperative onboard fuel gauges.

Nygaard, if they had bought the fuel by weight, there could have been
confusion about liters.