ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
I used less than that on pilots wing and tail of a 757 the other day.
What NOT to do?
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I used less than that on pilots wing and tail of a 757 the other day.
Maurus
The Great Gazoo
The sad thing is that they seriously wanted to charge us $600 for something that obviously didn't happen.
jdlilfan
Well-Known Member
100 is green,
Also JET-A+ 100LL makes a greenish color.
One of our ex-greenhorns was sumping the LL and putting it in the jet-a reclaim on midnights...
Also if jet-a is orange or rust colored it means you have some biological issues with your fuel. Learned that one a few months back as well.
Joe Gremlin
Well-Known Member
Details please. I've heard of this, but never seen it. Did you have some microbes growing in the fuel? If so, what's the fix?
jdlilfan
Well-Known Member
Sorry Joe it took me a while to get back to ya,
We sumped about a week after receiving a load into one of our tanks and it came out rust orange with oily goo in it. Basically we called Shell/ Eastern and they said it sounded like microbes. They told us to run the humbug detector kit and I think the boss had to fedex a sample to a lab. We quarantined that tank. Eastern came back and said yeah, you have microbes and it was most likely a QC issue from the refinery in Indianapolis. Shell sent us this chemical treatment ( I can't remember the name of it) that we added and after a week or so it was back to normal.
First time I have ever saw that.
beechpilot
Well-Known Member
A what NOT to do scenario in aviation would be to burn bridges with collegues...we have a new guy whose trying to make his way through his ratings that thinks he's better than everyone. I'm one of his CFI's and I've even been treated like crap a few times recently. In short, I've learned that aviation is way too small of a community to treat others poorly, especially when someone could help you or you could help them someday.