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)

1. (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)

1. (aviation) An instance of hot refueling.

   Hot refuels require the fueling crew to take great care to avoid getting sucked into the operating engine.