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Old 05-09-2010 | 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by RockyBoy
On the 88 fleet they have our arrival fuel down to around 4000lbs now. I even saw one the other day at 3900. That's getting a little to low for my comfort zone. Not sure what is going on with the North fleet, but we don't carry much extra on the -88. Do the North guys do single engine taxi's and shut the APU off yet? Probably save more gas doing that than running on fumes at your destination.
I thought 4200 was as low as they could go.... (45 minutes) That was for the aircraft that were adjusted with the fuel low caution light.. the non-modded planes were 5000 lbs instead for the min at destination.