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Old 6th Mar 2018, 05:04
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pineteam
 
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Since you don’t need them why keeping them on? The wings pumps run all of time unless you switch them off.
Also during refueling, if fuel pumps are on there is a chance of fuel spilage. Can’t find any references for this but it happened quite recently in our fleet.
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