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Senior Skipper
Thanks IIICorps.
Would you know where on the FAA site I'd go to learn more on that procedure? It certainly is interesting.
I am not sure it is a procedure but it has happened. Controllers don't like crashes anymore than pilots and if they sense a problem, they can and do designate a flt as emergency fuel. And as said, they may or may not inform you that the flt has been designated as such.
This came out in -08.
http://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviat.../inFO08004.pdf
Here is a story in BCA addressing the issue
When the Gas Is Gone | AVIATION WEEK