Npas is flying further and longer with less aircraft. Fuel or lack of it particularly at night (airfields shut and MLA is higher) is at the forefront of pilots minds. In Essex we often would be tasked until we really had to land on minimums.
Absolutely, and the reassessing of bingo fuels during a 'deployment' is becoming more common. It has been known to ask ATC to confirm the opening times of a distant airfield in order to give an inflight decision on deploying to a job.
As for those 4 o'clock in the morning deployments!!!!!
Shaggy Sheep Driver;
AoF, if I read the report correctly, when the aircraft crashed there was sufficient fuel in the tanks to keep the engines running and nothing the AAIB could find to prevent that fuel reaching the engines. Yet the engines flamed out through lack of fuel.
… apart from the transfer pumps being off and supply tanks being empty :roll eyes: