You haven’t seen a fuel spill till you've worked on a ramp, then you wouldn’t feel bad at all about 2 strainer cups....
9 times out of 10 Avgas will evaporate before it can wreck the concrete, although the dye will stain pretty much no matter what. Adds character to a ramp.
Jet will kill grass, and soaks into earth and lasts years. But it finds a second home very nicely in anything with a diesel engine, including most tow tugs or jettas (I wonder why up and coming pilots all drive jettas... hmm....)
As for putting it into some sort of container and re-using it. All I will say is from a legal standpoint we never put it back into the plane, you can't guarantee the integrity of whatever container or homebuilt strainer your using. And reusing fuel you got from a home build strainer may be the precursor to being on the cover of a copy ASL.
Most places provide silly little cans, but if the cans were more then 20ft away would you honestly use them anyway?
TDawe
(Edited for gramatical errors.)
9 times out of 10 Avgas will evaporate before it can wreck the concrete, although the dye will stain pretty much no matter what. Adds character to a ramp.
Jet will kill grass, and soaks into earth and lasts years. But it finds a second home very nicely in anything with a diesel engine, including most tow tugs or jettas (I wonder why up and coming pilots all drive jettas... hmm....)
As for putting it into some sort of container and re-using it. All I will say is from a legal standpoint we never put it back into the plane, you can't guarantee the integrity of whatever container or homebuilt strainer your using. And reusing fuel you got from a home build strainer may be the precursor to being on the cover of a copy ASL.
Most places provide silly little cans, but if the cans were more then 20ft away would you honestly use them anyway?
TDawe
(Edited for gramatical errors.)
