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Old 8th Aug 2011, 19:14
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Tinstaafl
 
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...and as part of your operational procedures you don't just have the plane automatically filled after each flight without knowing what the next load will be. Jeez, after a few demonstrations it's not that hard to get a student to calculate how much fuel they

A: Need
B: Can load

Where I first instructed we did the fueling ourselves. More accurately, the *students* did the fueling, under their instructor's supervision. After 1st solo they were allowed to taxi over & fuel without direct supervision. Can't recall that we had many issues with W&B in the aircraft.

Some larger students preferred to, or had to, learn in a C172, but most students were accommodated in the C152s.
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