Posted on 02/07/2024 12:23:18 PM PST by dennisw
“How the hell do you fly a plane right out of fuel?”
Good question. They were only flying from South Carolina to Louisiana. Not a long distance.
I think what that other article I read was trying to tell me was that they tried to fly to the Louisiana airport without buying gas where the flight originated because it was more expensive there than at the destination airport.
But even the little old taildraggers I flew had fuel gauges, c’mon! I wonder if the flight crew’s bodies were checked for drugs.
Geez, just trying to save a little money, and look what happened.
A stable plane is a happy plane. Constantly trimming and pumping fuel to correct for balance is ‘No Bueno’. As one early instructor said “You’re driving a plane, not a roller-coaster”.
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