Purely hypothetical question...
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EN48, that's a fair question (and thanks to all for their responses). I was wondering if there would be a noticeable issue with say TOT, in case it was put in by stupid mistake - a tell tale, if you like.
The question was prompted by a near miss by a refueler.....
The question was prompted by a near miss by a refueler.....
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In 1979 (there about) there was 6 B206's and a new model helicopter at the time called an Astar, at one point we were running out of JetB fuel (drums) and they sent a fuel truck to refill our drums to keep going until a new batch of drums showed up. So for about 6 days, 7 aircrafts ran the fuel that was brought to us until an AME noticed this whitish powdery stuff inside the exhaust of the Astar, after a quick research by him we realized that our drums were refilled with avgas and that whitish deposit was lead from the avgas. All the aircraft at the end of that day were grounded until our new fuel showed up.
After that, we simply refuelled with JetB and went back to work. Nobody ever noticed a difference in their aircraft the whole time we burned avgas. Each aircraft flew from 15 hrs to 40 hrs that week.
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After that, we simply refuelled with JetB and went back to work. Nobody ever noticed a difference in their aircraft the whole time we burned avgas. Each aircraft flew from 15 hrs to 40 hrs that week.
JD
