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Baltimore_Bill t1_je4uz6u wrote

Yeah. Its been flying for about a month now. The thing is a pain in the ass to fuel.

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BmoreBr0 t1_je4wuh4 wrote

Is it a pain because of the way the new chopper is physically configured, or because they have to constantly fly back to MTN?

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Baltimore_Bill t1_je4y3q7 wrote

It has a fuel strainer in the fueling point that has such little holes that if you dont trickle it in it burps out and makes a horrible mess. Then you smell like jet fuel and the cops come over and yell at us because for some reason they put some expensive sensor directly under it that the fuel can damage.

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keyjan t1_je54jsr wrote

That doesn’t seem very efficient. “Hey, we need the chopper in the air, stat!” “Sorry, it’s going to take another half hour to fuel it.”

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guest0112 t1_je56k6o wrote

Makes me think of when I was 21 and buying plastic handles of vodka and people used to say “remove the fun stopper first!!” Referring to that little plastic piece on the nozzle

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Huge_Reception7715 t1_jecepqf wrote

Sheesh that seems ridiculous. Wonder what the sensor does. How those things look up close?

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