X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 30 [X] Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 01:22:48 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mail.glasair.org ([65.75.24.102] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.8) with ESMTPS id 2031398 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 08 May 2007 00:33:19 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=65.75.24.102; envelope-from=Bruce@glasair.org Received: from bruce1 by mail.glasair.org (VisNetic.MailServer.v8.5.0.8) with ESMTP id NJO86721 for ; Tue, 08 May 2007 00:32:21 -0400 From: "Bruce Gray" X-Original-To: "'Lancair Mailing List'" Subject: RE: [LML] Re: Fuel Gauges for VFR Flight X-Original-Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 00:32:26 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <03df01c79129$e376d150$0a01a8c0@bruce1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: It could probably be argued that because all the tanks are = interconnected with the fuel being pumped to the header and the engine feeding from the header only - that there is only one tank, and it does have a gauge.=20 In Glasairs there are 2 tanks - header and main, each with its own gage. Bruce www.glasair.org =20 -----Original Message----- From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of marv@lancair.net Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:25 AM To: lml Subject: [LML] Re: Fuel Gauges for VFR Flight Posted for "Bryan Wullner" : This topic is probably beat to death but Im not sure anyone ever = clarified it. RE: equipment for DAY VFR flight. =20 FAR 91.205 (9) Fuel Gauge indicating the quantity of fuel in each = tank. =20 I am still trying to figure this out because I do not have fuel probes = in my wing tanks. I do have one in my Header tank. But according to the rule = it states that a gauge is required for EACH tank. =20 How has everyone been meeting this requirement without gauges for the = wing tanks? =20 Bryan =20 [Bryan, a number of folks have reported that they received their airworthiness=20 certificates and regularly operate their aircraft with only a header = tank=20 gauge. Given that the FARs are couched in so much typical legalese, it = is no=20 wonder that so many interpretations exist. If you look at 14CFR Part = 91.205 it outlines the required equipment for "powered civil aircraft with a standard=20 category U.S. airworthiness certificate", which begs the question of = whether or not our amateur-built experimentals qualify, because in another FAR=20 standard airworthiness certificates are not issued to experimentals... = they=20 each receive a special airworthiness certificate. (There is a good = article at=20 the SportAir site=20 (http://www.sportair.org/articles/Rules%20&%20Regulations%20of%20Airplane= %20 Building.html)=20 that is well worth reading.) Additionally, you might want to peruse the = FAA Advisory Circular 20-27F (get it from either the FAA or EAA sites)... = lots of=20 good information in there as well, and it suggests that our = experimentals=20 _are_ governed by FAR 91.205 (at least, that's how I see it) which, = asyou=20 know, says that each tank requires a fuel guage. However, Advisory Circulars=20 are only that, advisory, and their information must be interpreted = according to 14CFR, so we are pointed to the regulations once again, and need to = don our=20 lawyer hats to understand them. I know that we went through this recently, but I, too, would appreciate = a=20 well-presented explanation of why or why not the sections of 91.205 = apply. ] -- For archives and unsub = http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.html