Originally Posted by
thunderbird five
News is reporting AJ has sent a fully fuelled 380 to Melbourne to refuel planes from during the refueller pay strike.
I doubt this is even physically possible, but if it was, who’s equipment are they going to use and who is going to do it?
You would have to have some qual to refuel an airliner, Kevin from catering isn’t going to do it.
those who know, is this the biggest BS story of the century from mainstream media?
I’ll bet QF has no plane to plane refuelling chapter in their ops manual!
did some $hit for brains see a 380 landing and assume it was a tanker!
Certainly is possible & not hard to do with the transfer hoses,pressure provided by the donor aircraft's(in this case the fully fuelled a380) normal tank fuel pumps & a licensed engineer on the type can carry out the procedure as part of his authorisation.