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In a message dated 6/24/2001 10:12:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Hamid Wasti writes:

<< As you start getting down to the last few gallons in your header tank, do you know for sure at what level your tanks will stop feeding the engine?  .....Hamid -- These are all good points.  However, in the LNC2 header tank, at least, I would find it hard to believe that the unusable portion would be much above 1 gallon.  Still, the tests you suggest are prudent -- perhaps a first whack would be to do it on the ground.  But I've gotta believe that the header tank with sight tube offers more certainty in remaining usable fuel than with a wing tank with any other metering device -- once you establish what is useable and what is not.


<<Now you are looking at only the fuel remaining in your header tank as the
total available fuel to get you from where you are to a suitable airport.>>

Let's see, suppose we refill the header tank when seven gallons are remaining, and the wing tank runs dry.  With an LNC2 you can probably go over 100 miles.  Not a nail-biter, at least to me...- Rob Wolf

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