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MaggieL · 11-05-2006, 05:04 PM

Big airlines also cost considerably more than the 152 trainer in question. And have fuel flow sensors that feed the flight management system with minute by minute accurate fuel consumption data...which is why one transatlantic flight got in trouble after a last minute engine change. A fuel leak developed that dumped increasing amounts of (uncounted) fuel overboard...they ended up dead-sticking in.

11-05-2006, 05:04 PM	#43
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	Big airlines also cost considerably more than the 152 trainer in question. And have fuel flow sensors that feed the flight management system with minute by minute accurate fuel consumption data...which is why one transatlantic flight got in trouble after a last minute engine change. A fuel leak developed that dumped increasing amounts of (uncounted) fuel overboard...they ended up dead-sticking in. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."