REFLECTOR: Fuel shut-off valve location

[Scott Derrick]

The fuel selector in Denver's plane was incredibly hard to adjust, it
was in the back seat(he was in the front) and needed a pair of pliers to
be used!  While the selector valve's location was listed as a
contributing factor, that accident was 99%  bone head stupidity on his
part.  I've been lucky enough that my bone head stunts have not resulted
in so final a result, so far that is!

The fuel shut off control or label should be within plain view and
reasonably within reach.

Scott

jewen at comporium.net wrote:
> Be careful about making it difficult to reach.  Among other reasons the NTSB cited, I believe John Denver's crash was in part related to a difficult to reach fuel selector/shut off.
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> Joe
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>> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:48:48 -0700
>> From: "David Ullman" <ullman at robustdecisions.com>  
>> Subject: REFLECTOR: Fuel shut-off valve location  
>> To: <reflector at tvbf.org>
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>> Thanks for all the comments.  Seems that it is best to keep the fuel path as
>> short as possible so mine will go on the sump with a push/pull cable coming
>> up the keel to a position that is difficult enough to reach that it wont get
>> pulled accidently, yet is reachable.  Seems the only situations for using it
>> are in maintenance, crash landings and a fire aft.
>>
>> David G. Ullman 
>> Robust Decisions
>> ullman at robustdecisions.com
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