X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:44:55 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from web53703.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.24] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.11) with SMTP id 2242217 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:27:08 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=206.190.37.24; envelope-from=scott_seagrave@yahoo.com Received: (qmail 47846 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Aug 2007 15:26:20 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=bi/KKGTmH51eWuazXYWCl3diTU8VcMcIDoPBxSPMJ45EEJLS3A4RKVHmYVS6X9l3ec0BURoBsqvfXxGzQxN2UQYL+Zy96h1rsJ2DDyECKmu6dYRl6gF/W0Ah3xb1Uik5dItzhkrPYijwEP/iTPelRE/ft5n1wIj/0yHlMLWnuTQ=; X-YMail-OSG: ivPJTJkVM1kOpwqbn5.U2fOlUyRvdJHDUpea_PAfdFlk9vxfxPX6eU504C1rOHhvukA9Z_brlcOy4BLVAXrwQgDf.Bh6LSHfPt.Md0GRgs2SWFYNZ0VmW17VP1vLw1pMJveK4jnsfC_KiAy3lue85UJipw-- Received: from [70.118.231.237] by web53703.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:26:20 PDT X-Original-Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 08:26:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Seagrave Subject: Re: [LML] Re: What causes stall/spin -- Why do so many engines quit? X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1631177860-1186241180=:47528" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Original-Message-ID: <492215.47528.qm@web53703.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-1631177860-1186241180=:47528 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I attended an FAA session at Osh Kosh entitled "Surviving Forced Landings." According to their statistics, 43% of all forced landings were due to either fuel exhaustion or fuel starvation (using the exact terms Bill described). Another 6% were due to carb ice. So in total, nearly half (49%) of all forced landings should be fairly easy to avoid. Scott Seagrave L-IVP N721MS (reserved) Bill & Sue <5zq@cox.net> wrote: Actually Tom, fuel starvation ONLY covers those instances where there is fuel on board. If there's no fuel left it's fuel EXHAUSTION. Bill Harrelson N5ZQ 320 1,400 hrs N6ZQ IV under construction > By the way, "fuel starvation" is not necessarily the same thing as > running out of fuel. Fuel starvation also covers those instances where > there is fuel on board but for some reason it's not getting to the engine. > > Tom Gourley -- For archives and unsub http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.html --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. --0-1631177860-1186241180=:47528 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I attended an FAA session at Osh Kosh entitled "Surviving Forced Landings."  According to their statistics, 43% of all forced landings were due to either fuel exhaustion or fuel starvation (using the exact terms Bill described).  Another 6% were due to carb ice.  So in total, nearly half (49%) of all forced landings should be fairly easy to avoid.
 
Scott Seagrave
L-IVP     N721MS (reserved)

Bill & Sue <5zq@cox.net> wrote:
Actually Tom, fuel starvation ONLY covers those instances where there is
fuel on board. If there's no fuel left it's fuel EXHAUSTION.

Bill Harrelson
N5ZQ 320 1,400 hrs
N6ZQ IV under construction



> By the way, "fuel starvation" is not necessarily the same thing as
> running out of fuel. Fuel starvation also covers those instances where
> there is fuel on board but for some reason it's not getting to the engine.
>
> Tom Gourley


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