I thought that the yanks stopped spraying mind altering chemicals on their own after the whole agent orange thing, guess Iraq was no different hey siguarda?
I am sure no harm was meant by the cowboy, he was merely pointing out the operational issues that this a/c will face, and operationally, sipping fuel through a straw takes time, time, in modern aviation, is money + pax hate sitting around scratching their balls waiting to fly, so valid point re the avgas. There is no room for bravado and heros in todays aviation, go to CRM and get with it mate!
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