A KC-10 Extender aerial tanker refuels f-16s somewhere over Afghanistan. Air Force photo/Capt. Sean Chuplis
Air Force Tells Pilots To Slow Down To Save Fuel -- Stars and Stripes
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The Air Force has ordered its pilots to fly higher and slower in an effort to slash fuel use while still performing the same missions.
The rise in oil prices has added $1 billion to the cost of fueling the Air Force fleet in 2012, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for energy Kevin Geiss said last month.
“We use the most energy of all the services in the Department of Defense, and we are the largest energy user in the federal government,” Geiss said. “Every day, we fly 900 mobility aircraft flights around the world moving cargo and fuel and doing disaster response and aeromedical evacuation as well as operations with combat aircraft.”
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My Comment: Expect more orders coming out in the future that will limit the use of ..... well .... of everything.
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