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June 14th 05, 06:41 PM
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About 43 years ago I had a fuel exhaustion forced landing in an Aeronca
Sedan (15AC) on floats. It had simple plexiglas sight glass gages that went directly into the two wing tanks - and me thinking what could be more reliable? What I didn't know is that it had nylon fuel cells rather than rigid tanks. It also had leaky fuel caps and a partially plugged vent system that allowed the fuel cell to collapse in the air. The sight glass gages showed a comfortable half full until about 5 minutes before complete fuel exhaustion. I landed in a swamp, drifted to shore, found the farmer etc...... He was surprised. In my 172M, I stick it with a Fuelhawk and never let planned landing fuel get below 1 hour. But, I still don't really know if that hour is really there or not except that it has never taken more than 33 (of 39 useable) gallons. 
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