Timeline for Do pilots of airliners and jumbos do a walk around preflight check for every flight?
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| Jan 10, 2018 at 17:58 | vote | accept | securitydude5 | ||
| Dec 29, 2017 at 20:52 | comment | added | user71659 | Modern jet transport aircraft have a water scavenge system which mixes water from the bottom of the tanks back into the fuel. Water draining is usually only necessary weekly. This system would incur too much weight and use too much energy on small aircraft versus the time it saves. | |
| Dec 29, 2017 at 0:28 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/946538376651509760 | ||
| Dec 28, 2017 at 21:37 | answer | added | Mike Sowsun | timeline score: 35 | |
| Dec 28, 2017 at 20:21 | comment | added | Nij | Note that "being really big" is a design attribute, and implementation for small aircraft is not practical. | |
| Dec 28, 2017 at 16:16 | comment | added | securitydude5 | Sampling to check for water accumulation in the fuel | |
| Dec 28, 2017 at 16:11 | answer | added | kevin | timeline score: 17 | |
| Dec 28, 2017 at 16:08 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | Sumping? You mean taking fuel samples? | |
| Dec 28, 2017 at 15:53 | history | asked | securitydude5 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |