Catch 21,
To answer your earlier question - if sat in the hover, the Fwd Tx pump caution can come on as early as 130kgs in the main - and the pump has to have had no fuel to pump for 2 minutes before the caption appears. The explanation as to why has been covered earlier in this thread.
Sycamore,
As it was a T2+, I would not have expected it to be at MAUM with 400Kgs of fuel. The explanation as to why has been covered earlier in this thread.
Reely 340,
The transfer pumps do have a non return valve fitted - as has been covered many times before in this thread - as has the fact that the pilot of a police aircraft does not get ordered around from task to task. The aircraft's presence is requested - I have never yet, in 14 years had a TFO accept tasking whilst airborne without asking first. It was one of the main reasons that it was decided to use pilots that were not police officers in UK police aviation.
Last edited by Fortyodd2; 19th Feb 2014 at 08:35.