Surely the safest procedure would call for crews to upload 2.5% more than the plog fuel to allow for gauging errors
- I cannot believe I am reading this! However, I'll play. That should be +195kg for 'full wings', should it not - RY allow 300kg. QED??
Gauge errors have NEVER been taken into account in my time, nor are they related to
"the plog fuel" in any way, shape or form. In any case, an over-read will almost certainly stay an over-read all the way down (and vice-versa) and you would
never know unless you drip, and that is inaccurate in itself. Never known a pilot drip the wings before diverting.
Assuming the final figure was from the tech log then not 1 RY a/c went below gauged F Reserve, if that matters..