Originally Posted by mono
Surely every refuel involves an error check!!
Yes. We always work out that the fuel remaining on arrival by calculation from departure minus uplift is within 300kg for B737 up to 1000kg for B747 from the arrival fuel worked out from the flowmeters taken away from the last departure. If not off to the MFLIs. But be careful. The modern fuel system is accurate to 0.5%, while a dipstick is accurate to around 4%. With modern aircraft it is amazing how rare an error is.
You need some good conversion tables. Fuel is in litres or US gallons or UK gallons, and dipsticks are in lbs or kgs or inches or units, or litres, and do you add the outer cell in (A320 and Tristar) or not? There can be a lot of head scratching after a stick check!