"Jose" wrote in message
. com...
"Fuel starvation" is usually used to describe a mechanical problem in
which fuel is present, but not getting to the engine.

I always thought that the primary "mechanical problem" in this case was a
fuel selector in the incorrect position.

It can be but it would be an entirely different kind of error than when the
fuel is actually exhausted. Beyond that, most pilots who starve the engine
of fuel due to a fuel selector problem do manage to figure it out before
they actually are forced to land. You don't hear of most of those "fuel
starvation" incidents, because the pilot quietly keeps it to themselves.

More common in the "starvation" category would be fuel tank vent problems,
ice in the fuel line, water in the tanks, carburetor problems, that sort of
thing.

Pete