bingo fuel

An aviation term indicating that the aircraft has barely enough fuel to return to home base safely.

Negative home base, I'm running on bingo fuel. Request return to airfield.

by D-Man2426 December 19, 2013

Bingo Fuel

The absolute minimum amount of fuel required for an aircraft to return to an airport and conduct a safe landing.

"We are three minutes until bingo fuel. If you can't retrieve the rescue swimmer by then, we will leave him behind."

by pcbene June 30, 2017