F-16 Fuel Cost At Takeoff Power

[Just a civilian pilot]

How much fuel you have in the tanks matters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

And the ability to glide it to safe landing when you don’t have enough

More and more pilots who can’t even land properly with enough fuel and power.

Experince matters even when screw ups happen.

That was both a maintenance a flight crew screw up compounded by being the first metric aircraft at Air Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/archives/when-a-metric-mix-up-led-to-the-gimli-glider-emergency-1.4754039

 

[Just a civilian pilot]

If I am ever given an aircraft with broken fuel gauges, they will need to get another pilot to fly it.

Very limited information on that stuff in our manuals and I have never seen it in any training.

That’s my calculation.

Fix both broken FQIC or full fuel.

 

[Just a civilian pilot]

Funny how the Manufacturer says its something we can go with under MEL but they say a fuel check is required at least every 30 minutes to check for fuel leaks as part of normal aircraft operation.

You can't check for fuel leaks when both fuel channels are broken.

 

[tom slick]

I met a guy at a conference one time and learned that he was a B1B pilot. I asked him what was the highest fuel consumption rate he ever saw. He said it was a sea level in full afterburner and the rate was 398,000 pounds/hr. That's 6,633 pounds/minute or 990 gallons/minute.

The fuel inlet pipe on the F101-102 is about 3” in diameter. The pipe running to the augmentor is about 2”.

Fun fact: the F110, F118, and CFM56 use a core derived from the F101 but have different fan and exhaust configurations.