Pre-flight / Fuel Test

[bohica]

The environmental police do not go after men of the cloth.

[twotter]

Chuck... It's a female dog's pee that kills the grass... Maybe you should have a look at yours.

 

I know you're getting a little old but.... :hide:

 

Just yankin your chain buddy...... :up:

[thehalfchild]

I always toss it on the ant hill.........i think they get high off it or sumthin cause it doesnt seem to do much harm

[AirCon]

The tree hugger will love us!!!....we dispose our fuel into drums so it doesn't hurt the grass.

 

Then we turn it into petro-gel for drip torches...you know...Nature Napalm!!!...ya gotta fight fire with fire!!!

 

PS..do tree huggers every think of the poor trees when they're wipin there arses with a forest product???

 

Cheers

 

A

[tDawe]

You haven’t seen a fuel spill till you've worked on a ramp, then you wouldn’t feel bad at all about 2 strainer cups....

 

9 times out of 10 Avgas will evaporate before it can wreck the concrete, although the dye will stain pretty much no matter what. Adds character to a ramp.

 

Jet will kill grass, and soaks into earth and lasts years. But it finds a second home very nicely in anything with a diesel engine, including most tow tugs or jettas (I wonder why up and coming pilots all drive jettas... hmm....)

 

As for putting it into some sort of container and re-using it. All I will say is from a legal standpoint we never put it back into the plane, you can't guarantee the integrity of whatever container or homebuilt strainer your using. And reusing fuel you got from a home build strainer may be the precursor to being on the cover of a copy ASL.

 

Most places provide silly little cans, but if the cans were more then 20ft away would you honestly use them anyway?

 

TDawe

 

(Edited for gramatical errors.)

[ahramin]

I do not think that it is really that hard to dump the fuel into a container rather than on the ground.

 

But no matter how many cups of fuel you guys dump on the ground, it doesn't compare to those owner maintenance types who dump their used oil down gopher holes!

 

ahramin

[canook pilot]

We pour it into the tanks of the trucks. Stops the fuel from thicking up when it get real cold. :hide:

[skullcap]

Well, if you look at the fuel and it is clean, your sample container is clean, what is the problem with dumping it back in the tank. Seen many a pilot just drain it out on the ground, not sure what that proves, if you had a major dose of water(or chocalate chip muffins) in the tanks it would tell you nothing. Have even asked pilots while they are draining on ground if the fuel is clean, response is always, yup!

 

 

Have had a few 500D's with more than a few onces of water in them, probably wouldn't be here on about this had I just drained on the ground.

 

As far as what to do with a bad sample, I forget how many thousands of gallons of ground water is contaminated by one gallon of fuel but it is astounding. Usually there is some sort of container or old drum about to dump it in. Why not try and turn a new page and try to look after what we have? What harm does it cause?

 

Am not a environmental activist just a farmer's son.

[broken]

Just before I take off, I pour my 100LL into an old paper lunch bag, then I press my lips against it and breath heavily, always helps the peelotage skills.

[skullcap]

So you're the guy who keeps sneakin in and sniffin our pump gas.