Running dry?

The ACS magazine this month mentions sometimes 2-3 minutes to restart a
Comanche engine after running a tank dry. They don't recommend doing
it...

On 2005-08-19, Paul kgyy wrote:
The ACS magazine this month mentions sometimes 2-3 minutes to restart a
Comanche engine after running a tank dry. They don't recommend doing
it...

Not borne out by experience, though. A friend of mine would routinely
run a tank dry in his Comanche - when he did it with me on board, the
engine caught immediately when the tank was changed. It may as well have
been a high wing Cessna single.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

When I'd had my Comanche less than a month, and hadn't yet figured out an
accurate fuel burn rate, I accidently ran a tank dry -- at night over Puget
Sound. Switched tanks and hit the boost pump and it started immediately.

Then I restarted my heart, turned east and landed at Skagit to fill up.

Seth
"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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On 2005-08-19, Paul kgyy wrote:
The ACS magazine this month mentions sometimes 2-3 minutes to restart a
Comanche engine after running a tank dry. They don't recommend doing
it...

Not borne out by experience, though. A friend of mine would routinely
run a tank dry in his Comanche - when he did it with me on board, the
engine caught immediately when the tank was changed. It may as well have
been a high wing Cessna single.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

Gets your attention over trees, rocks, or water, doesn't it?

Jim



Then I restarted my heart, turned east and landed at Skagit to fill up.

Ayup.

Pretty religious about my reserves since then.

I have two 30-gallon tanks. I switch tanks as soon as I reach cruise
altitude -- usually about 20 min at full power, which I interpret as burning
half an hour of fuel at 65% cruise. Then I switch each hour thereafter. In
theory, this leaves me thirty minutes if I go dry.

Seth

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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Gets your attention over trees, rocks, or water, doesn't it?

Jim



Then I restarted my heart, turned east and landed at Skagit to fill up.