Too many pilots don't use common sense. If you only ever did things 'by the book' then we would be out of business, computers could fly the aircraft.
Normally you would open the cross feed for a fuel imbalance, but if you check your fuel state and you clearly then have a fuel leak from the low fuel wing you would obviously keep the cross feed closed. That is also in the manual. So maybe we don't need pilots after all if they are not going to get passed the first line in the abnormal checklist.
Last edited by Flap 5; 12th July 2004 at 09:41.