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Old 27th May 2001, 20:54
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ooizcalling
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Post What happened to 'Water Drains'

Just trying to get an overview on when does your airline do water drains and who does them ?

It used to be at First flight of the Day and then at every refueling thereafter. Nowadays with better quality control of the fuel distribution and tanker to aircraft via manifolds rarther than hand held nozzles it seems to be a lesser risk and therefore not done so often.

This doesn't cater for condensation in the tanks or any leakage of overwing tank caps etc and I miss the security of the ground engineer holding up the drain bottle at the pre flight check stage with a screwdiver with water detecting paste on it and still uncontaminated.

I'm told they do it on a weekly basis during one of the regular checks. How is it with your organisation.