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Originally Posted by DE727UPS  What's the dumbest thing you ever did while being an aviation fuel transfer tech?
Well, glad you asked DE.
When I was 16, I was refueling the Jet A truck via single point. I kinda forgot to disconnect the single point before I drove the truck away. I yanked the hose off of the big tank. There was some sort of safety valve that prevented a major fuel spill, but the hardest phone call I've ever made, to this day, was to my boss telling him what I did.
That was back in 1977, and I'm a UPS Capt today, but thinking about that still sends chills up my spine..... |
Maybe it was YOU that inspired the brake interlocks on the trucks nowadays.
You CAN'T drive away with the hose attached now because when the little door for the single point is open, it kicks in the brakes and won't let you put it into gear. And if you have the PTO running, it won't let you put it into gear either. The only thing now that you can do is drive away while a single point hose is still attached to the aircraft. You can't drive away unless the nozzles are in their holsters.
There HAVE been times, though, that I'm sitting there wondering WHY I can't go anywhere despite that big huge red light glaring at me.
Cheers!