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FOB
- Usado para
- fuel on board
- Fonte1
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Flight planning and fuel management manual. Montrea137l, 2012. (Doc. 9976).
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Manual of aircraft accident and incident investigation. Part III: investigation. Montreal, 2011. (Doc. 9756 AN/965).
- Contexto
- While moderns systems and methods make it relatively easy to continuously monitor fuel consumption and fuel on board on arrival, such information may be of little use to a flight crew that does not exercise appropriate judgment as a flight unfolds. With this in mind, it is important to note that all flights no matter the duration always arrive with far fewer options than were available when they departed. For example, a flight typically arrives in the vicinity of its destination aerodrome with the following fuel on board regardless of the length of the flight from the point of departure:
- Regardless of the circumstances surrounding the nature of the accident, it becomes important during the investigation of most accidents to determine the amount of fuel on board the aircraft and the fuel distribution.