dark_reaper
Airport Bum!
Lovely, another broken E145, OW sucks.
Worst plane to fuel!
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Jimmy_Norton
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I forget if you pull it out or push it in, it's been a while, but I got it to work pretty well. I was still nervous about really blasting the fuel in there for fear of taking a bath, but it did seem to help. Still sucked, though. Nothing like topping the trunk right next to a hot engine on a 90* south Florida summer day.....
Bandit_Driver
Gold Member
MU-2 (balanced fueling between six tanks...takes all day)
Lear 20/30 series (balanced fueling)
Caravan on Floats w/o Single Point (too damn high up)
DC-3 (wing hard to climb up due to the amout of oil on it)
Lear 20/30 series (balanced fueling)
Caravan on Floats w/o Single Point (too damn high up)
DC-3 (wing hard to climb up due to the amout of oil on it)
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
The Lears arent too bad. It certainly is annoying though.
Speaking of being really high, the Casa 212 is really annoying because it is so tall, and the filler port is so far back on the wing.
The G-I is also the same way. You have to crawl on the wing.
CirrusMonkey
No Real Usefulness
I don't remember the tail numbers but when I worked for UA, and we did our own fueling, 757's below a certain ship number used to pump slow, if only taking fuel in the wings. Most of the time it made no differance if you hooked both hoses up or just 1, still took the same amount of time.
scotland laddy
Well-Known Member
MU-2 for me. However, C-152 can be tricky when pilots ask for 5 per side and it tops off at 1 per side. Nice geyser effect on that aircraft.
MrAviator11
Well-Known Member
All King Air's from 90 to 350's, Beechjets, Mu2's and a couple of Citation Jets! The main ones I deal with on a daily basis are King Airs and Beechjets by far the worst freaking planes to fuel specially on a quick turn!!
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
It's sort of amusing to note that I am essentially the scourge of fuelers everywhere. Kingairs (well, a 99), MU-2s, Beechjets? Check, check, aaaaand CHECK. See you on the line, fellas! 
Dugie8
Well-Known Member
Looks like a button with a spring under it next to the filler valve (the trunk). Pull it while fueling, helps fuel go in faster. The trunk is such a pain in the BeechJet because tehre is a foam "filter" in the rear most tank (fill tank) that the fuel has to get through to get to the rest of the center tank(s).
Just don't pull the sniffle valves on the bottom of the wings, especially with a full wing.... don't ask me how I know this.
Bandit_Driver
Gold Member
All King Air's from 90 to 350's, Beechjets, Mu2's and a couple of Citation Jets! The main ones I deal with on a daily basis are King Airs and Beechjets by far the worst freaking planes to fuel specially on a quick turn!!
What is so bad about the King Air's? The Aux tanks weren't the easiest to reach but not that bad. The mains were ok.
N519AT
Ahh! This is how I change this!
I was wondering the same thing.
The only problem with the mains is that they bubble up quite a bit when you're getting close to topping it off. This means that a true top off of the mains takes some patience.
Other than that, not so bad. Fueling the aux's are a nice break as you can sit on the wing and go full blast into the tank (no bubbling here) after doing the mains.
We saw a lot of King Airs when I worked line service so I tried to not let them bug me.
Bandit_Driver
Gold Member
Auxes were a nice break and the you are right about the mains, but you learn pretty quick how to keep it in the sweet spot. I never had a problem topping them off. I just bounced the wing a bit and it kept the air coming out nicely.
On another note it was fun trying to "PACK" a Lear and the Tweets were also fun to pack to...
Boiler1011
New Member
[Sorry to bring up an old thread, but it's my first post, so do I get an exemption? 
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FedEx's older A310's. The ones that don't have a fuel panel on the outside. Basically, you have to do all your math beforehand, converting from lbs to gallons, and pray to Jesus that you are at least somewhere in the ballpark when you get done. Usually MX is there to stand upstairs and give you the signal, but when they aren't.....well lets just say you get a good cardio workout.
Any plane that you have to do drip sticks on. Because no matter how well you do it, you are still going to get a Jet-A shower.
]FedEx's older A310's. The ones that don't have a fuel panel on the outside. Basically, you have to do all your math beforehand, converting from lbs to gallons, and pray to Jesus that you are at least somewhere in the ballpark when you get done. Usually MX is there to stand upstairs and give you the signal, but when they aren't.....well lets just say you get a good cardio workout.
Any plane that you have to do drip sticks on. Because no matter how well you do it, you are still going to get a Jet-A shower.
Bandit_Driver
Gold Member
I hear ya. When the guages are inop on a tank in the 727 we have the good ole DRIP sticks. Apparently the airline that order the plane couldn't pay the few extra bucks for the dripless stick system.
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z987k
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I hate fueling my AC90. It's a 30+ minute affair for more than 200 gals. 22 integrated tanks, 3 points of fueling. Have to top the center one first, then evenly fill the sides. Anything flow rate greater than 10gpm will put fuel on the wing because it hasn't trickled into the other tanks yet.