1983. Air Canada. Fuel gauges inop. Not on MEL if they could dip the tanks. They dipped with a stick measured in inches and goofed converting to kilograms (it was AC's first "metric" bird). Result was that they took off with x lbs instead of x kg. Well, a lb is 1/2.2 kg. So about half way they ran the tanks dry. Aircraft was deadstick landed on a former military base. The base was still in use as a GA airport but the longer airstrip (the one long enough for jets) had been converted to a drag strip. They landed just at the end of the Saturday evening drag races. Aircraft was C-GAUN/Tail 604 (still in service after a brief period in storage). Pilot was Capt. Robert Pearson (I met him; in fact I've also flown aboard GAUN). F/O was Maurice Quintal. The good luck part: Capt. Pearson was an accomplished glider pilot and President of the Montreal Soaring Council (located in Hawkesbury, Ont, about 100 km from Montreal; my home town incidentally though I moved away in 1983). F/O Quintal had trained in the Air Force at that base prior to it being shut down. The former air base/GA airport/dragstrip was Gimli, Manitoba. This is from memory. Perhaps one or two details I'm rusty on. Mike Gammon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chi Shing YU [QMD]" <csyu@hkpc.org> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:40 PM Subject: Canadian B762 Glider > Can anyone repost the details of the Canadian B767-200 running out of fuel = > in around 1986? > > Thanks in advance. > > C.S.