The Mighty 727!

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We had the same ones in the DC-9s, along with some other surpassingly modern items, like the new pressurization system, solid state battery chargers and RSVM altimeters.

/A to navigate, tho...priorities....
 
Adler said:
oops.

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trafficinsight said:
That's not good right? You want those numbers to be different don't you....

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Richman said:
Not that hard to do if you weren't paying attention... Looks like someone tried to cover for it after the fact.

Normally if you saw a lot of fuel press lights on the FE panel, something was going on.

Not that I'd know anything about that, of course, you know, from reading the books...yea, that's it....
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I've definitely fallen asleep and woke up to a major fuel imbalance; but as much as I'd like to pretend, that shot was simply the left gauge acting up in the first minutes of a 4 hour flight. So I used brain cells and a lot of guessing and ran the tanks as I felt fit. I think we landed with like a 200lbs imbalance. I was impressed with myself.
 
Adler said:
I've definitely fallen asleep and woke up to a major fuel imbalance; but as much as I'd like to pretend, that shot was simply the left gauge acting up in the first minutes of a 4 hour flight. So I used brain cells and a lot of guessing and ran the tanks as I felt fit. I think we landed with like a 200lbs imbalance. I was impressed with myself.
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So, is that before the corrective action?

I'm trying to think of what would fix it by making some assumptions.

My school had a 727 and we used to do certain stuff with it but it had no engines and the airport used to use it to store waste fuel so touching fuel switches was strictly verboten.

Someone ignored that advice once and the resulting mess was.... Impressive.

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trafficinsight said:
So, is that before the corrective action?

I'm trying to think of what would fix it by making some assumptions.

My school had a 727 and we used to do certain stuff with it but it had no engines and the airport used to use it to store waste fuel so touching fuel switches was strictly verboten.

Someone ignored that advice once and the resulting mess was.... Impressive.

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Yea, before corrective action. I assumed left left tank was close to the right tank since I had kept it in balance before, and just watched the fuel flows moving x-feeds and boost bumps as I assumed we needed. Worked out. The coolest part of the plane is it was assumed if you were good, you know more than the manuals. The QRH was more of a start here kind of thing, but use your systems knowlege to do what you need to do.
 
Adler said:
Yea, before corrective action. I assumed left left tank was close to the right tank since I had kept it in balance before, and just watched the fuel flows moving x-feeds and boost bumps as I assumed we needed. Worked out. The coolest part of the plane is it was assumed if you were good, you know more than the manuals. The QRH was more of a start here kind of thing, but use your systems knowlege to do what you need to do.
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So... Open right side and left side crossfeed valves, turn off left boost pumps?

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