Aircraft nearly brought down by Tesco Fuel

Inch_High_2

arcon5 wrote: »

Hardly relevant to ops problem. And ops problem certainly isn't consequential to your point.

If your travelling at 70mph in a 60 and I pull out in front of you then do you think I'm any less in the wrong

I don't think the op had a problem at all. Would this be your forum of choice to join up if you had such an issue?

System

Nurse it back, dodging from land-able field to land-able field

Microlights tend to be very good at gliding. Wouldn't the obvious option be to gain as much height as possible to give max possible chances if the engine fails completely?

Sounds like OP need to go back to the instructor and ask for extra classroom time on dealing with emergencies and pre-flight checks and the actions to take.

warehouse

AdrianC wrote: »

If the problem was in their tanks, or in the tanker that supplied them, then there would be a big line of other customers having problems. They don't appear to have had any such problems.

How do you know there aren't many hundreds of customers complaining right now?

Stoke

topdaddy wrote: »

So op's fuel was fine then?

Never said that. Could be contaminated due to a mistake, but not because Tesco buys !!!! fuel.

AdrianC

warehouse wrote: »

How do you know there aren't many hundreds of customers complaining right now?

So you're suggesting that the Tesco store, and their specialist forecourt management company Gilbarco, are busy denying responsibility to LOTS of people, without anything having reached the local press about it? At least three recent hits on a quick google about it - all from one person...?

Doesn't that make you wonder if there might be a different cause for the contamination? How likely is it that somebody else has used his unattended jerrican...?

colino

Like I said a while ago, google it, it's not unique. Try "Tesco Bellshill 15 drivers breakdown". Just the most recent one nearby.

AdrianC

Lanarkshire isn't particularly likely to be on the same delivery route, or even depot, as York.

colino

Adrian C, I think you may be one of those geniuses. Either that or you are particularly obtuse.
These events happen regularly, as the manifolds are common, and the filling stations involved are well practised in containing the issue and avoiding bad PR. Some get out to the media, most don't.

k3lvc

topdaddy wrote: »

So op's fuel was fine then?

Not sure - been offline since the urgent first post earlier. Either the medication has kicked in or they're continuing on their microlight round the world trip using Shell fuel

AdrianC

colino wrote: »

Adrian C, I think you may be one of those geniuses. Either that or you are particularly obtuse.

I'm not the one assuming that it HAS to be one particular cause, just because a vaguely similar incident may have happened 250 miles away at another one of the single largest petrol supplier in the country's hundreds of outlets. The very fact that that only affected fifteen people before the pumps were closed off shows that it's most unlikely to be the same situation here. Similarly, it proves nothing at all about systematic poor quality at that one chain, and even less about systematic poor quality at all supermarket filling stations.

These events happen regularly, as the manifolds are common, and the filling stations involved are well practised in containing the issue and avoiding bad PR. Some get out to the media, most don't.

I'm sure they do. But Occam's Razor applies, as ever. Somebody leaves a jerrican kicking about in a semi-public shared space for ages, assumes it hasn't been borrowed in the interim, leaves the full jerrican lying about for a week, then uses it even though he notices it looks and smells funny,.. and the petrol station don't appear to have had a single other report... Hmmm...