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Probably something like this;Tower: Unidentified aircraft at 30 Angels, flying SW at heading 225, you are in US airspace. We do not have a flight plan for you. Please identify, overCAF: This is Canadian Defense aircraft CA 125. TACAN not receiving, off 5 degrees of flight plan, am leaking fuel; request permission to land per your instructions, eh? overTower: IFF confirmed. Are you carrying any ordnance? overCAF: Negative tower, but past bingo on fuel, overTower: Follow beacon, come around to 174, land on #4, maintenance and security vehicles will direct you once in. OverCAF: Thank you Fairchild tower, Canadian 125 vectoring on approach. What’s for dinner? OverTower: Try the meat loaf and mashed, Canadian 125. You are in time for happy hour. Hope you are not carrying that funny money, Canadian 125. OverCAF: I carry Visa, tower. I know some guys here so hope they buy the first round, eh? overTower: On final approach Canadian 125. By the way, avoid the sirloin… tough as tarmac. Enjoy your stay and welcome to Fairchild.

I was a commercial aircraft fueler in the ‘90’s. Typical fuel trucks hold between 10,000 and 15,000 gallons of JET-A. Long haul cargo flights would be our biggest fills. They would typically require between 4 and 5 fuel trucks each holding 10,000 gallons. We had a couple of 15k gallon trucks we’d use if they were available. A typical fuel request would be about 340,000 lbs of fuel. At the time, Seatac airport had about 5 or 6 storage tanks (I don’t recall there capacity each) and were feed by the Olympic pipeline.*Edit: Jonathan is correct that it is the Olympic Pipeline, not the Alaskan.

What do you do when fuel is exhausted and we are denied landing by ATC?Before the engines quit and fuel is exhausted declare an emergency and tell ATC you are landing. Then land the plane. ATC is the pilots secretary…Pilots let their secretary do all sorts of things like give altitudes headings and clearances. BUT When really important things need to be done pilots tell their secretary what they are going to do and do it. There is no country on earth that has a rule saying ATC in command they all say PILOT IN COMMAND.It sounds like thispilot ‘tower airbus 325 minimum fuel request landing immediately’ (wrong call out)tower ‘airbus 325 unable hold at PGH 5000 you are number 6 expect further in 15’pilot ‘mayday mayday mayday tower airbus 325 declaring emergency landing 25 left on 10 mile final.’tower ‘airbus 325 cleared 25 left, state nature of emergency, type of assistance needed blah blah’Pilot ‘tower standby’ or if/when time permits enter dialogue with tower.other ATC person ‘ ‘all traffic for zzz landing clearance canceled,speedbird 22 execute immediate go around hold at…..’ we have emergency traffic on 10 mile final for 25 left blah blah’it will create a lot of radio work for ATC but everyone prefers that to the crash cleanup work.years ago some silly pilot declared minimum fuel got stacked in holding never declared an emergency ran out of fuel and crashed his passenger jet. He was under the assumption ATC was in charge. THEY ARE NOT THE PILOT IS