There’s also a fuel panel on the left side, but it’s called the “dummy side.” No panel. A fueler hooks up the hoses, pumps until they’re told to stop, that’s it. With both sides doing 800-900 gallons per minute, it’s possible to fuel an Asia-bound flight in 70 minutes or so.

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Most gates that handle wide body aircraft have two fuel pits, one near each wing of an aircraft parked on that surface. On a wide body, the fuel panel is on the left side. Fueler hooks up the hoses, the are gauges that show quantity, mostly straight forward.

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When I first started fuel dispatching, it really was sink or swim. I sank a lot very early. One of my more memorable mistakes, it still lives in my head, was dispatching fuel to an Asia 777 at C29. I was running behind, as was often the case.

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I’m starting a YouTube video about airline fleet usage, and the first image is of the C gates at O’Hare, including a wide body jet at C29.

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There are plenty of people on the internet who themselves work boring corporate jobs, are ashamed about it, and spend the evenings ordering $25 burrito taxis and shit posting about being the starving artist they pretend they want to be.

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