Bad fuel gauges?

On Feb 23, 2:11*pm, wrote:
Despite my years of fighting ignorance, many pilots still seem to
believe that the fuel gauge only has to be accurate when it reads 0. In
fact, I have seen both Rod Machado and the Kings assert this. We have
an uphill fight, my brother.
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

Rod Machado. I have his audio CD book and it may well be that this is
where I heard the idea of being accurate only when full or empty. I
can't remember at the moment but I'll find out.

Maybe the only-accurate-on-empty myth started as one of Rod's jokes
and got out of hand.

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On Feb 23, 2:11*pm, wrote:
Despite my years of fighting ignorance, many pilots still seem to
believe that the fuel gauge only has to be accurate when it reads
0. In fact, I have seen both Rod Machado and the Kings assert this.
We have an uphill fight, my brother.
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

Rod Machado. I have his audio CD book and it may well be that this is
where I heard the idea of being accurate only when full or empty. I
can't remember at the moment but I'll find out.

Maybe the only-accurate-on-empty myth started as one of Rod's jokes
and got out of hand.


I heard it years ago. It doesn't make much difference. They're not reliable
anyway. You wouldn't want to fly around without them, but you woulnd't want
to stake your life on them..


Bertie

On Feb 23, 5:23*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
wrote :





On Feb 23, 2:11*pm, wrote:
Despite my years of fighting ignorance, many pilots still seem to
believe that the fuel gauge only has to be accurate when it reads
0. In fact, I have seen both Rod Machado and the Kings assert this.
We have an uphill fight, my brother.
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

Rod Machado. I have his audio CD book and it may well be that this is
where I heard the idea of being accurate only when full or empty. I
can't remember at the moment but I'll find out.

Maybe the only-accurate-on-empty myth started as one of Rod's jokes
and got out of hand.

I heard it years ago. It doesn't make much difference. They're not reliable
anyway. You wouldn't want to fly around without them, but you woulnd't want
to stake your life on them..

Yup, absolutely. They're part of a redundant system--nothing more,
nothing less.