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Old October 1st 06, 11:18 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Larry Dighera
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Default NW_Pilot's Trans-Atlantic Flight -- All the scary details...

On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:20:13 +0200, Stefan
wrote in :

Larry Dighera schrieb:

A more experienced pilot who had studied the aux tank system may have
been able to mentally diagnose the cause of the fuel venting.


He did everything by the book, but the book was wrong. A pilot is not
supposed to assume that an FAA approved book is wrong! In fact, I'm
scared of pilots who establish their own ad hoc procedures because they
think they know better than the book.

Stefan


What you say is true enough. And so is what I said.