hot refuel
English
Verb
hot refuel (third-person singular simple present hot refuels, present participle hot refueling or hot refuelling, simple past and past participle hot refueled or hot refuelled)
- (aviation) To refuel an aircraft while one of its engines is running.
- The plane's APU was broken and the airport didn't have ground starting equipment, so we had to hot refuel the bird - if we'd shut both engines down, we wouldn't have been able to get them started again.
Noun
hot refuel (plural hot refuels)
- (aviation) An instance of hot refueling.
- Hot refuels require the fueling crew to take great care to avoid getting sucked into the operating engine.