I didn’t give too much shit. About ten years ago I did the math and fueled so much that we were overweight for the 4000 foot runway.
We spent about 20 minutes burning fuel so we could depart. Since then, I always use a calculator.
I was doing captain upgrade training on a guy this week. He figured up the needed fuel in his head and was off by about 1200lbs of fuel. That’s about 45 minutes of time aloft. Yep, fucking marines and math,...