Running dry?

Blanche wrote:


Coming home, just the reverse - serious headwinds, high RPM and
more fuel used than I expected. How would knowing a more
accurate fuel capacity help? To me it seems that knowing fuel
usage is more critical than fuel capacity.

Without a fuel flow gauge you can't know you're fuel usage unless you
know how much each tank holds. My 182 has 42 gallon bladder tanks. I
recently replaced my left tank with a brand new one. If I wouldn't
have run it dry I would never have known that it actually holds 44 gallons.



NB: I had planned on installing either JPI or EDI fuel flow meter


Avoid JPI like the plague.

Blanche wrote:


Coming home, just the reverse - serious headwinds, high RPM and
more fuel used than I expected. How would knowing a more
accurate fuel capacity help? To me it seems that knowing fuel
usage is more critical than fuel capacity.

What does it serve to know FUEL FLOW unless you can calulate that again
CAPACITY?

How does it help to know how much money you spend if you don't know how much
you have in the bank? (Insert joke about "How can I be out of money, I still
have checks in my checkbook?")

In article ,
Newps wrote:

Avoid JPI like the plague.

My club has been installing JPI's on most of our planes. It is true that
they're over-priced, and have totally inscrutable user interfaces, but this
is true of almost all avionics. What in particular makes you not like JPI?

Roy Smith wrote:

What in particular makes you not like JPI?

For me, I avoid them because they're absolute *******s. I will not support them
with my money.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

C'mon George, tell us what you REALLY think of them {;-)

Jim



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Roy Smith wrote:

What in particular makes you not like JPI?

For me, I avoid them because they're absolute *******s. I will not support
them with my money.

Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
Newps wrote:


Avoid JPI like the plague.


My club has been installing JPI's on most of our planes. It is true that
they're over-priced, and have totally inscrutable user interfaces, but this
is true of almost all avionics. What in particular makes you not like JPI?

Their attitude towards their customers. Customers are a necessary evil
to JPI.

On 2005-08-21, Roy Smith wrote:
My club has been installing JPI's on most of our planes. It is true that
they're over-priced, and have totally inscrutable user interfaces, but this
is true of almost all avionics. What in particular makes you not like JPI?

JPI have done many dubious things as a company. The most recent example,
after finding out that pilots are hooking up computers to one of their
gauges and the pilot community has made useful programs to analyse the
data, they encrypted the data to stop people doing that. That, to me, is
basically sociopathic behaviour. They basically found out people were
making the instrument they bought more useful - so decided to cripple
the instrument.
http://www.avweb.com/newswire/11_18b.../189696-1.html

They have also bullied a smaller firm (Matronics):
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:M...ient=firefox-a

The encryption issue is enough to make me not want to use a company's
product.
--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
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"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"