REFLECTOR: Fuel gages, long flight bladder management, was Floaters

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Actually, it's more correctly....  "Astronaut Nut-Job from NASA"

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From: "Chuck Jensen" <cjensen at dts9000.com> 

> Sid, 
> 
> The diaper is a good trick but obviously not new (Re: Astronaut Nut-Job 
> from Texas), but I concur, when at altitude and knocking out miles, it's 
> a pain in the bladder to have to stop....an hour and 2-3 gallons of gold 
> down the drain, though the GWT will be a little less the rest of the 
> trip. 
> 
> With your one-gauge-serves-all, do you have sight gauges on the 
> individual tanks so you can tell if one is feeding feeding uneven? Say, 
> a cap loose/leaking or a wing low and ball not centered. Some report 
> having seen a feed difference between tanks of as much as 10 gallons, so 
> your central gauge is just an average of the two? When I posed the 
> question, "if one tank has 10 gallons and the other is empty, what 
> happens?" There was silence---I don't remember if that was in the 
> response, or if that was the response! 
> 
> Chuck Jensen 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On 
> Behalf Of Sid Knox 
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 8:19 AM 
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list 
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Fuel gages, long flight bladder management,was 
> Floaters 
> 
> 
> Hi Chuck, 
> 
> > I take it the photo showing 65 gallon capacity wasn't from your Velo. 
> > If it was, you get the big-tank award. Or, if it was in liters, you 
> > get the teenie-bladder award. 
> 
> No, it is gallons...total in both tanks (since they are plumbed 
> together). 
> Max fuel in my Velocity is 72 gal with both tanks filled to within about 
> 1/4 
> inch from overflow. 
> 
> As for the bladder issue on long flights, here is another trick I 
> learned 
> from a magazine article... carry an extra-absorbent baby diaper in a 
> zip-lock bag. Use as many times as necessary during the flight and 
> simply 
> drop the bag in a trash container at your destination. Yes, this may 
> sound 
> silly, but on a long flight (I don't like to stop once I get going) it 
> pays 
> off by allowing one to drink water as needed to prevent dehydration. 
> 
> My longest non-stop flight was from Ashland Oregon (SO3) to Tahlequah 
> Oklahoma (TQH) about 1500 st mi. Flying solo and running well 
> lean-of-peak 
> (Lyc IO-360C1C, MT 3-blade) and with some diversions for storms in 
> Kansas, 
> flight time was about 10 hours and I still had about 1.5 hours fuel when 
> I 
> got home. 
> 
> Sid Knox 
> Oklahoma 
> 
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> 
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