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And most pilot will have touched this fuel quite a bit - for example when checking a single engine propeller plane during preflight we sump the fuel tanks. Ther

• s0rce 5y ago
  If you are particularly concerned (could be justified) you could get a small aircraft with a diesel engine, don't seem super common but might be increasing.
  • ryandrake 5y ago
    Or wear gloves during your preflight.
  • ericd 5y ago
    And that'd have the benefit of accelerating the industry's transition a little, by boosting demand.
• myself248 5y ago
  Ask your doctor, get it checked! I just got my test results back, since I'm having some odd symptoms and my doctor's kinda throwing ideas at the wall. He asked, jokingly, if there was a chance anyone was trying to poison me with arsenic. I said no, but I do a lot of soldering (like a LOT), and I make a point not to chew on my solder or wear the iron behind my ear like a pencil, but who knows whether the dust is getting absorbed or whatever. What the heck, let's check for it. My level came back at "less than 1" µg/dl, which I guess is as far down as that particular measurement can go. So that's cool, seems my precautions are adequate.
• sokoloff 5y ago
  I switched to using a GATTS jar (which also helps detect Jet-A contamination, which is not much of a concern for a 172). The design of that jar is such that much less fuel (often zero) touches/splashes onto your hands and it's easy to pour the fuel back into the tank if the sample is "clean".