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Old 4th January 2006 | 06:56
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cpt
 
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From: 1500' AMSL
Re: Paris Dakar

As an advice, always closely monitors what's beeing done with fuel in this part of the world....Jet A is not always sold in drums by fuel companies, so "agents" sometime buy used drums, clean them more or less carefully and fill them from a shuttling tank.
I know an operator who lost most of a seismic contract last year,and about 100 fuel drums because of continous filter clogging. The drums here, had contained oil palm and had be cleaned with water ! (surprise, surprise !) of course the "agent" didn't atend the debriefing !
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