Hello everyone how do you do. If any of you have ever wondered how we get our fuel tanks filled up with fuel, I’ve put together this video that shows what goes on. In case you wonder why nobody is wearing masks, this video was done in 2018, before Covid relax. The process I show here is what we call ‘Manual refuelling’ as in we normally send fuel requests digitally to fuelling company. Today it’s by a fuel order form to engineers. Initially a standby fuel figure is requested while we wait for the Final Zero Fuel Weight for us to request final fuel required. There are captions explain what is taking place. The Earthing cord is for reduction of any static that could cause sparking(dangerous around fuel). In a lot of the more modern airports, fuel comes from a fuel farm via underground piping all around the aircraft parking stands. At the older airports, a fuel bowser/pump is utilised. In this video, the truck has a pump as well. Two refuelling receptacles are available under each wing on the B747. Not uncommon to use only one side the system crossfeeds to other wing automatically during refuelling and ensures fuel tanks are balanced as per required fuel load. Hope you like it
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