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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Vinny,
Its a lot more complicated. You look at the readings on the gauges (in this case an electronic display) and enter this into the computer (FMS, a flight management computer) and from that, your route and winds it will give you an estimate of your fuel remaining upon landing. If its less than the "mins" then things start flashing yellow on ours. Its easy, until the display stops flashing you do not take off but something, or many things did not get done correctly.
They did a wonderful job of getting the ship down on a drag strip but it should not have ever happened in the first place.
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