Something's missing here. There's nothing about low fuel lights coming on. He said they were on the cusp of minimum fuel, which means they still have half an hour to forty minutes remaining. They plan for things like this in the North by carrying enough fuel to do their whole route instead of one leg at a time. Fuel in places like that has to be flown in, and that makes it a lot more expensive. Cheaper to just bring it yourself. They probably would have added some fuel for extra margin, but they wouldn't have filled up.
"We were unable to properly fuel up, so what else were we supposed to do? Just sit there twiddling our thumbs? Of COURSE not! Off to the wild blue yonder we go!" With specimens such as this, I really don't know how our species ever left the ground.
It's either that or sit in Kugluktuk until someone comes to fix the pump, probably around June. They still had 800 lbs of fuel on board, about half an hour at cruise speed.
Something's missing here. There's nothing about low fuel lights coming on. He said they were on the cusp of minimum fuel, which means they still have half an hour to forty minutes remaining. They plan for things like this in the North by carrying enough fuel to do their whole route instead of one leg at a time. Fuel in places like that has to be flown in, and that makes it a lot more expensive. Cheaper to just bring it yourself. They probably would have added some fuel for extra margin, but they wouldn't have filled up.
sure why not, not like there's going to be weather or anything up there at Yellowknife.
"We were unable to properly fuel up, so what else were we supposed to do? Just sit there twiddling our thumbs? Of COURSE not! Off to the wild blue yonder we go!"
With specimens such as this, I really don't know how our species ever left the ground.
It's either that or sit in Kugluktuk until someone comes to fix the pump, probably around June. They still had 800 lbs of fuel on board, about half an hour at cruise speed.