Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:


Too true. My personal rule is at the point where I'm starting to worry about
fuel, I don't have enough.

All the pontification I've been reading from the purists with the totalizers is
getting to be a bit much for me. I've never flown an aircraft with a totalizer
and somehow have survived the experience.

I don't have a fuel totalizer. However I won't hesitate to plan a
flight with 30 minute fuel reserve if all the conditions I mentioned in
my previous post are met. Fuel reserve has more to do with weather,
alternate runways, enroute progress check than an arbitrary number of
minute in fuel reserve. One can easily name a situation when even an
hour of fuel reserve isn't safe (say flying a limited range aircraft to
a wide spread IFR area).