Guys -

I'm trying to set the trigger points on my 360's automatic refueling system.  I have a capacitance probe in the header tank that will trigger the transfer pumps when it is xx% full and shut them off when it is yy% full.

Like a bonehead, I have the probe in the front part of the tank.  There are eight inches fore-to-aft between the capacitance probe and the overboard vent at the back of the tank.  I don't want the transfer pumps to run if the fuel will just run out the overboard vent, such as when trying to get it 90% full while in a climb.

Soooo, what is the deck angle (what does your attitude indicator say) in a bestangle-of-climb, best-rate-of-climb, and a cruise climb?

I recall in my Cessna 150 I started out at a 10 degree deck angle and it went down from there.

I'm also thinking of installing a Pillar Point optical probe at the same level as the overboard vent, so I'll get a warning when fuel is running overboard.  What do y'all think?  Is that overkill, and will I get too many nuisance warnings?

- Rob Wolf