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Originally Posted by ptarmigan
I have also. What is your point? Ha, saw Lag beat me to it, didn't even see his post!
Sure you have. You've looked at your leaking JT8-D and figured..."They are going to send me to the hotel for sure!", and then they tried to fly you.
NOT at Fedex! This happened at another company. We were flying over Germany, and lost all the oil out of one of our engines. It was a major leak, and it is obvios to those that were down there that the airplane was DOWN.
My engineer taps me on the shoulder about half way across the Alps: "Hey, we are losing oil on number three; we had three gallons at startup, and now we are down to one gallon. I had already noted this, but kept this "under my belt", or something that I kept quiet. The problem was that I couldn't keep this one secret.
In any case, my final day at Fedex was very good. I plan to buy a Subaru Outback so that I can negotiate the occasional memphis snow. I'll keep its throttle to idle when the ramp is iced over~
J-