> Why?  When you fill up the tanks at the airfield, does the pump count in
> pounds?  I think a better solution would be to leave it as a volume
> measurement and setup a fuel weight-per-gallon value in the FDM.  Having
> to set the fuel amount as a weight value seems non-intuitive to me.

For light aircraft, the pumps measure gallons in the US.  For larger aircraft
and for which the fuel tanks have relatively little control of fuel
temperature (and thus density), the fuel on board is measured in pounds.
I don't know what the pump vehicles measure when depositing jet fuel.

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