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Old 21st Jun 2008, 18:58
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Carrying ABEFM does not guarantee you will not g/a with 600 a side.
Are you suggesting
1. Rainboe and I have not read a thread which stretched to 5 pages (unlikely at least in Rainboe's case)
- Yes, well should have
2. The subject is not interesting (in which case why did you reply to the original post)
- No. The SUBJECT was interesting. Hence the interest. ABEFM is not - here in this thread.

The thread is not "a closed subject" but there is this awful cemetary-like atmosphere of dead bodies being dug up again. What using 5 tonnes of fuel holding has to do with a low fuel g/a I cannot see.

To attempt to answer your question, Dogma, turbulence will be a factor, although the overall 'average' fuel available to the feed pipes will be sufficient as it sloshes around. Attitude and accel/decel are more crucial, hence the QRH.
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