NW_Pilot's Trans-Atlantic Flight -- All the scary details...

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:59:11 GMT, Jose
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How would the fuel get to the main tanks in the first place?

Read Mr. Rhine's narrative. The FI system has a fuel return line to
return unused fuel pumped to the engine back to the wing tank(s).

The FI system has a fuel return line to
return unused fuel pumped to the engine back to the wing tank(s).

Is this dumb, or is there a good reason not to return fuel to the tank
whence it came, in this case, the ferry tank?

Jose
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The FI system has a fuel return line to
return unused fuel pumped to the engine back to the wing tank(s).

Is this dumb, or is there a good reason not to return fuel to the tank
whence it came, in this case, the ferry tank?

Jose

There would probably be a significant amount of under the cowling work that
would have to be done. So the good reason is cost.

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:23:12 GMT, Jose
wrote in :


Is this dumb, or is there a good reason not to return fuel to the tank
whence it came, in this case, the ferry tank?

I suppose it was an engineering expedient to simplify the
installation.

Recently, Jose posted:

The FI system has a fuel return line to
return unused fuel pumped to the engine back to the wing tank(s).

Is this dumb, or is there a good reason not to return fuel to the tank
whence it came, in this case, the ferry tank?

I think it's short-sighted, as it didn't consider the entire fuel system.
From the description that NW_Pilot gave, the aux fuel system seems more
like a kludge than something that was designed.

Neil