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

[Chuck Jensen]

There's a difference?  :-)
 
 
 From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of jp211 at comcast.net


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

	-------------- Original message -------------- 
	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 1! 0 gallo ns 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
wit! hin abo ut 
	> 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 
	> 
	> Velocity 173 RG N199RS 
	> Starduster N666SK 
	> KR2 N24TC 
	> W7QJQ 
	> 
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