BA 777 crash at Heathrow

Peter Clark wrote in
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:55:12 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:


Yeah, I've never seen it added to an airliner's fuel either. I've a
vague recollecton of seeing prist added to a lear's fuel with a
special
fitting on the fuel hose accepting a can of prist. But AFAIK we don't
have anything.

I might have this backward, just working into the jet buring world,
but are you loading Jet-A or Jet-A1? Generally isn't Prist in Jet-A
since it has a higher gelling point? I think Prist also has an
antimicrobial effect, helps in the Jet-A stuff that doesn't fly as
much as a jetliner.



We use both, depending on where we're getting it. We also get some
oddball wide cut stuff in some places. It's fine, but we have to be more
careful loading as it lights up pretty easily. We don't pay too much
attention to what we uplift since we don't spend enough time at cruise
to get it cold enough to worry about. I don't know of any additives ever
added to anything i've flown. I did get a fuel blockage from water in
suspension in 100LL years ago, but I think they fixed that problem.


Bertie