REFUELING

I learnt the hard way too many years ago, lost lots of fuel overboard when the aircraft was parked on the tarmac late afternoon in the sun for real early getaway next morn. Of course it evaporated away and there was no evidence next morn other than the fact that the visual inspection next morn showed the level was down ,multiply that by X fills it mounts up . But then again if you are going on say 50km or more to a stop you will drop the level enough to avoid loss and after all its only fuel and we don't care about the cost of it do we?....:))...silverback

I"ll fill mine at night, you drive all day , have a hot fuel tank, it cools down overnight, lots of room for condensation as it is cooling, fill up in the morning, nice mix of water with your fuel, No Thanks. Exact same reason why 90% of transport and earth movers fill after a days work.

Have to laugh at those that will travel 6 to 10 Ks to another s/s because it's 1c a litre cheaper.

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Hey Doug

I drive past a Woolworths Petrol Station, near where I live, and you see people queued up down the street at least 15 to 20 cars, let alone
the cars waiting in the servo, or fueling up, most of them have there
engines running, they would take at least 20 minutes to get out of their, I wonder how much do they save, with the Shopper Dockets?.
I fill up at a independent servo, and they are at least 2 to 3 cents cheaper than the normal market price.

Cheers
Daza

M'mmm fuel missing from a parked aircraft - most likely 'boy racers' who reckon avgas really makes the rotary powered engines 'fly'. A regular occurrence (offence/theft) from smaller airports - in fact a couple of years back, an aircraft crashed because someone had almost drained the tanks overnight. (Beats me why the pilot didn't do his pre-flight and check the fuel levels).