BleachedBora said:
Yes...well...*cough* That's because we want you avionics techs to keep your jobs...
Meanwhile, I'm not flying 747's--yet. But soon I'll start flying the diesel twin!
In fairness, I must tell you this...prepare to laugh...
So I was being "trained" in how to do fuels for Atlas Air cargo. I typically work on Cargo360 and Singapore Airlines.
Anyway, Atlas does everything in kilograms and litres. But the fuel truck pumps out in gallons. You have to match your calculated required gallons to what the meter on the truck says within 200 gallons.
No biggie right? The fuel sheet has all the multiplier factors. Besides, I just use a T1 36x scientific to do all the work for me right?
So this old guy mechanic was going to show me "how it's done."
First of all, he did the math 3 different ways, using 3 different fuel densities.
I'm like ***? He said "sometimnes their fuel density is off." and I'm like "and what? you have a barometric tube in your head that automatically calculates fuel density for you?? Yeah nevermind the computer, you just "know."
So he corrected my calculated required fuel by 6 gallons (I did't carry the 4th decimal point, I rounded.)
When it was all said and done, he starts telling the fueler to add fuel in 100 gallon increments. About 250 gallons later, the Flight Engineer comes out yelling at him.
He overfueled by like 3000kg. We were like another 100 gallons away from being over max TO weight.
The punch line to this diatribe is that hte F/E said to him "geee, I wish someone here knew what hte F---K they were doing!" I'm so glad he was holding the fueling manual. LOL
He threw down the manual and looked at me and I siad "hey, YOU'RE teaching ME, remember?"
Always do your own work, the other guy might be an idiot.
