Message-ID: <00bb01bee2f4$96b38e80$1bc295cf@bill>
From: "William T Bartlett" <wtbart@olympus.net>
To: <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
References: <19990810043622.AAA26958@truman.olsusa.com>
Subject: Transfer to header tank?
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 22:52:05 -0700
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I patiently read through the header tank transfer opinions before, and
still didn't understand the reason to transfer fuel to the header tank.
In the original LanceAir (note that spelling) 200, with a Continental
O 200 and no fuel pump, I could understand some reason, but scary with
less than 14" of head. Will some one please explain in simple terms
why most builders (the ones that didn't decide they didn't like a tank
in the cockpit and can't) insist on transferring fuel to the header tank.
It seems to only complicate the system and increase the pilot load.
Please use simple words and no electronic fuel level switches.

Bill N7WB

>I never forget to transfer fuel to the header tank.  I just forget to shut
>transfer pumps off.  Not indefinately, but usually long enough to stain the
>bottom of the aircraft.  " Ah #@&%$*+!!!", say I, or some similar expletive.

>The vast majority of you have never done this, but there may be another soul
>out there who experiences the occassional "senior moment".


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