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Hi wing - low wing? Sad and it's only July.
Gary
Gary
Why land on water with tires? I did it a few times with a C-185 on 8:50's only because the water rose up on a 600' strip and I had a camp and crew to evacuate. Learned my lesson but given a choice or "hold my beer" You Tubes, why?
Gary
This is a video from yesterday of Carbon Cub nose over in a river. The pilot really takes full responsibility and dissected his mistakes which is great. A lot can be learned. For what it’s worth, the production quality of the video looks great.
https://youtu.be/QJrVUZKcxrU
Never Plumb in to the line going to the fuel valve. Always plumb into the tank or it will do exactly what it did.
The way we did them is to plumb into the top of site gauge then you can see that it’s pumping. Or not.
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Never Plumb into the line going to the fuel valve. Always plumb into the wing tank or it will do exactly what it did.
I am "portnuefflyer" on YouTube, and I made a lengthy comment there on Cory's video about how I've been using my ferry tank for over 20 years on two different planes. It's somewhat surprising to me that how to plumb it is even an issue up for discussion. I'm not patting myself on the back, but I "didn't know what I was doing" when I did mine, but it still has worked perfect and with NO need for any human intervention other then putting some gas in now and then. KISS applies here big time.
I believed they plumbed into the main fuel line from the tank to the valve. Pump pressure exceeded head pressure and the pump was pushing air and the net result is caught on video. I reliable source that was there said they replicated the exact same scenario on the ground. Needs to be plumbed like Mike said then you see the fuel going into the tank and you know when it is all transferred or so i am told by one of those old high time fish spotter pilots.
Do all of that at a safe altitude & during a less critical phase of the flight.
With five or six video cameras on your airplane, seems to me you're pretty likely to be distracted most of the time.
MTV