Panorama
In last night's program, the CAS agreed that there have been 25 fuel leaks in the last six months, and each one is being looked at. But in reality there has probably been many more. Let's look at the data we have received fron Sec of State recently, and posted on pprune:
(1) Annual number of fuel leaks over past 10 years; approx 4 per 50 flying hours.
(2) Number of hours being flown by fleet; approx 10,000 per year (5,000 per 6 month period).
Now it is not rocket science to do a little maths and work out 5,000/50 x 4, and you get 400. NOT 25.
So perhaps the CAS was talking only about fuel leaks that were serious enough for incident reports to have been raised. Come on guys lets have the true story.
DV
Last edited by Distant Voice; 5th June 2007 at 09:48.