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Old October 4th, 2005, 17:45   #18
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Originally Posted by Theotokos
Ok enough with the Days of Our Life. Here is a scenerio from my pre-flight school brain. I did the research on this one.

It is night and you are on the transatlantic for UPS. You are in a Boeing 777 at a cruise of FL385 when you get a low fuel warning. You glance at your fuel gages and they are normal. You are still over land so there are plenty of places to abort. Do you:

A) Assume it is just some error with the low fuel warning malfunction and fly on.
B) Abort flight and have a mechanic check it out.
Quick question for you. No matter what plane you are flying, when the low fuel level warning.light comes on, why would you even consider A on any flight.
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