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Old February 22nd 08, 01:37 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.owning
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On Feb 22, 4:12*am, Bob Noel
wrote:
You keep talking about detecting a leak. *Have you flown a comanche?
Do you consider the pa-24-260 to be unsafe because the fuel gauge
can only read one tank at a time? *


Why would reading just one tank at a time make it unsafe? Even with
both displayed simultaneously, I generally read one, then the other--
one at a time.
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Old February 23rd 08, 12:56 AM posted to rec.aviation.owning
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Most aircraft that don't have a gauge for each tank only read a tank
that is currently selected. So to say that the fuel gauge is there to
detect leaks is specious at best.




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On Feb 22, 4:12 am, Bob Noel
wrote:
You keep talking about detecting a leak. Have you flown a comanche?
Do you consider the pa-24-260 to be unsafe because the fuel gauge
can only read one tank at a time?


Why would reading just one tank at a time make it unsafe? Even with
both displayed simultaneously, I generally read one, then the other--
one at a time.

 




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