Originally Posted by
Ex A380-800 driver
........... An a380 burns more fuel than a 747-400 so i am guessing final reserve for 747 would be about the 4t mark.
Thanks ... A couple of years back I enthusiastically met a 747-400 as it arrived on a remote stand (at a UK airport) to provide fuel sevice, sole purpose of stop was for fuel, flight unable to continue to mailand EU having departed East Coast USA and apparently encountered higher than expected headwinds (well thats what I was told). I was soon set up and ready to fuel, just waiting for the figures and in so doing had noted the remaining fuel, total 4,500 kgs. When steps finally arrived the Captain came out to pass the figure to me, he seemed more than a little aggrevated that I had seen the guage readings and noted them down ...