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Title: How many fuel trucks for a 747-8?
Post by: swissdani on April 07, 2020, 07:55:31 am

Ciao Umberto

I was taking my 747-8 for a flight during the weekend and needed around 140t of fuel. As I had around 10t in the tanks when asking for fueling, I expected it to last a bit. Since I was doing a cargo flight and therefore parked on a outside stand, more than 1 fuel truck did arrive. However after over 1 hour my fueling was still not finished (next truck is on it's way) and cargo loading has not even started yet. Since my slot time was coming, I had to disable GSX and, reanable it and just continue with the pushback.

I do not think that there is a mistake in GSX, I am just curious how many fuel trucks I actually would have needed to refuel the aircraft? Could I "tricked" to situation with setting the parkposition to ground fueled? I assume that would be faster?

Thanks for your explanation.

Title: Re: How many fuel trucks for a 747-8?
Post by: virtuali on April 08, 2020, 04:23:49 pm

The largest tanker can hold 10.000 UsGal of fuel, I think a full load of 747-8F is about 60k, so it require need 6 tankers, from 0 to 100%. About 3 for 140t.