Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
There are so many idiot pilot stories.
Here's one, had a guy land in a C-340 when I was a fuel truck monkey. Weather was barely 200 and 1/2, only appoach we had at the field was an NDB with mins 640-2 (with high rise condos on either end). So how he got in without hitting one I never figured out, it's happened before.
It gets better when he asks me to top it off. The airplane took about 3 gallons less than max CAPACITY. IIRC I put 137.3 gallons in, and it held 140 total. I came in to tell him personally how much I'd just loaded and he didn't say much.