Tanks for nothing
About this episode
This episode discusses a close call from 2008 involving a young pilot's fuel management challenge during their first flight in a new aircraft type.
The fundamentals of flight planning do not change, as this classic close call from 2008 demonstrates. A first flight in a new type was a fuel management challenge a young pilot nearly failed. Read this close call at https://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/2025/12/tanks-for-nothing/.
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