Just goes to show what a waste of time all these records that they insist you do in the UK are. I'm in the US at the moment, and I just take the plane to the pump and fill up....don't have to log it anywhere. I satisfy myself the aircraft if fuelled before I go. Obviously records are only kept to aportion blame in the event of an accident and in this case the records weren't sufficient for this case. Never mind,maybe the aircraft operator will get prosecuted instead for keeping insufficient records. At least someone will be prosecuted and it will keep many people on here happy (and some lawyer in business
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One good point about this thread is that it got me thinking and talking. I had a chat with a guy today who nearly had a double engine failure in a seneca (estimated 5 minutes of fuel remaining) due to crossfeed mismanagement, even though one tank was virtually full....scary isn't it? How would you react in a twin flying around at 1500' which suffed double EF?
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