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Jabawocky
10th Aug 2009, 04:05
Ok, who will fess up to the presumably accidental fuel dump at Avalon on the weekend? :eek:

Seems while running up engines testing after maintenance some poor sod has activated a fuel dump....and not realised it or not known how to stop it!:eek:

Just watched the video of it....and this was not a few gallons of kero we are talking about. If I can up load some pic and video of it I will.

And Qantas wonder why their profits are going down the drain..... literally. It did give the firies and something to do with their spare foam and Kitty Litter!

...........yep its a slow day on pprune.......;)

Someone said YSBK had its runway swept for them, Avalon must be special to have a kerosene wash! :}

zube
10th Aug 2009, 04:55
Yeah, but just think of the fuel excise that goes to the feds.

Jabawocky
10th Aug 2009, 06:16
My colleagues video has been uploaded, and this is just one of several I saw, so it was not a 5 second dump at all.......:\ so if you know what rate they pump at per minute multiply by say 5!:E

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Tmbstory
10th Aug 2009, 07:53
From memory the fuel dumping rate on the L382 Hercules was between 2000 and 4000lbs / min depending on the number of tanks/external / aux that the aircraft was fitted with.

Tmb

Joker 10
10th Aug 2009, 11:34
I thought the squat switch locked out the dump pumps ????