RE: Refuelling aircraft

Discussion of refueling aircraft...

>According to the rules, a fumble mishap occurs when you make a throw of 2
>with the 2D. Statistically this happens 1/36 (one time in 36). That is:
>every 36th time you fuel an a/c it explodes ?!

   Sounds like an awful lot of explosions to me.  Anyone out there have
   U.S. Airforce experience to add to the Swedish experience?  Does this
   sound about right?

>In reality jet-fuel is quite hard to set fire to: It behaves more like
>kerosene than gasoline, The *really* scary stuff is high octane prop-plane
>fuel, Higly volatile and equally flammable.

   From what little I know of Jet fuel, I would tend to agree with you.

>Shall traveller follow reality or is there a reason to keep the xploding
>aircraft rule on the grounds of game balance or something like that?

   I don't have any contacts with GDW so I'll have to leave that question
   up to the people who do have contacts.  Anyone care to throw the
   question at them?  :)

>Here is my suggestion for refueling tasks:
(several suggested tasks follow)

   Never having had ANY experience refueling aircraft, I have  only one
   question...
   Can an aircraft of any type be completely refueled in only 2 minutes?
   This seems too low to me, especially if we are talking about hundreds of
   gallons at a time.  Are they *REALLY* high speed pumps or what?

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