George Patterson wrote:
Mike Spera wrote:
One well known aviation university teaches you to "fly out on the tank
you flew in on".

I take off on "both." If either one works, I have gas.


PA-32s and C-402s lack that ability, among many others. In fact, on the C-402
if you chose to take off on the aux tanks first, you just blew fuel overboard.
You had to create room in the mains for the fuel. The mains fed the engines.
The aux fed the mains. Therefore you take off on the mains and fly for an hour.
THEN you switch to the aux and fly for another 35 minutes or so, then switch
back to the mains for the rest of the flight.

Both? Must be talking about Cessna.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE