Originally Posted by
Will Fraser
Water does NOT belong in Fuel.
Your remark triggered a thought.....
Of course it doesn't belong there, and neither do other contaminants.
Yet they get in there sooner or later.
So, shouldn't a fuel system be designed from the outset for far worse crud than meets the "official" fuel specs?
Maybe a lousy analogy, but with perfect ATC, etc., there should be no other aircraft in my airspace. Yet we now have TCAS, and rightly so.
With perfect nav, CFIT should not exist. Yet we have GPWS, and rightly so.
With perfect fuel, this should not have happened. Yet it did. Maybe fuel systems should also have be designed for when 'sh!t happens'?
Whatever happened this time, the system was not "fault tolerant" enough.
CJ