Originally Posted by
handysnaks
Or cab (back in the day).
I hope Flying Bull continues to make his points and gives DB a severe ignoring.
TX s
bye the way - there is actually a helicopter, which is official named bird
MH-6 Little Bird Light Utility Helicopter | Military-Today.com
;-)
To fuel pumps - not really the ideal situation, that with only little fuel left, either the front or back pump runs dry (hovering / cruise).
Better to have pumps with run dry capability - but still, pumps are cautions, low fuel is a warning, which needs to be addressed accordingly.
Different to the normal aviation world, where you have time and need to do a proper preflight planning including fuel planning (normally on a sheet which needs to be taken onto the flight), police and SAR flights and some military - get missions while being airborne.
So you have to do inflight flight planning - but this should and normally does include fuel planning (trip / reserve fuel)
And the planning needs continues fine-tuning with changing mission parameters.
That it is demanding - at night - with two further crew members possible pushing towards mission completion - no question at all.
Everybody operating in a similar environment should therefore remember this crash and adjust his decision making towards safety.