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Landing on the Hudson is cool. Check this out
Thanks for the followup.
I guess it's all the fault of that stupid metric system! =-O Got my asbestos undies on... On 9/28/2020 9:34 AM, Michael Opitz wrote: At 16:32 27 September 2020, Dan Marotta wrote: The last Boeing I flew was the 727 and it had fuel gauges behind a panel on the under side of the right wing.テつ* There was also a calibrated drip stick.テつ* I imagine the 767 has similar provisions and I also imagine that the aircraft's MEL does not include the fuel gauges in the cockpit.テつ* But then I'm just imagining things...テつ* In the first article I read about this incident, a long time ago, they mentioned the inoperative cockpit gauges and I think it mentioned that the flight was legal with no in-cockpit gauges. Dan, That was just it. The dripsticks do read in Pounds, and the crew thought that because they were in Canada, the sticks would be reading in Kilos. The crew assumed wrong by a factor of 2.2, so they had less than half the fuel than they thought when they had finished fueling. Lots of errors... Obviously no before fueling dripstick readings, or paper calculations after getting the fuel offload receipt from the fuel truck, etc.... RO -- Dan, 5J |
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