Alex Perry writes: > I think they're talking prop light aircraft. It is especially severe > with high wing aircraft, since you cannot simply look at the fuel filler > ports and trivially inspect them. Fuel island staff often don't know > how to put the caps on right, and pilots often leave them off to dip the > tanks and get distracted, so forget and take off without replacing caps.
I imagine that it would also be pretty nasty if the pilot left off only one cap. It cannot be easy to handle the plane with one wing tank full and one empty at circuit altitude -- one good gust could put you upside-down. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
