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Location: Pahrump, NV

PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:09 pm    Post subject: One more item on the checklist Reply with quote

The wind quit for a day last week, so I decided to fly up to Beatty.  Unfolded the wings and topped the tanks.  Calm when I left, but it got bumpy about a half hour out.  Really rough over the desert.  I wasn't having fun anymore, so I turned around and went home.

Back on the ground I noticed that the left tank was still completely full and the right one was half empty.  I didn't notice during the flight because I knew the tanks were all full, and the sight gauges are hard to read in the bright sunlight.  Even harder to read without bright sunlight.

Anyhow this was unusual because the left tank normally feeds much faster than the right. I first thought the filter was clogged, but it turned out to be the fuel line. It was crimped between the wing and the fuselage. Not at all obvious, took me a while to figure it out even looking right at it.

So I was really lucky. If I hadn't turned around I almost certainly would have had a forced landing when the right tank went dry. In fact I felt so lucky that I immediately went over to my local casino and put $100 in the slot machines. Lost every penny. Bottom line, I learned two important lessons that day:

1. Check the fuel lines before takeoff.

2. Don't gamble.

Jim
NV74/KF2/582


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