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

[Chuck Jensen]

Is there a difference?  :-)

Chuck Jensen 
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Alex Balic
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 3:09 PM
To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Fuel gages, long flight bladder management,was
Floaters



Are we talking about the "drive across the coutry to kill your married
boyfriends other girlfriend"  nut job astronaut, or the "too drunk to
fly the Mir space station" astronauts?

 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of jp211 at comcast.net
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 11:30 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Fuel gages, long flight bladder management,was
Floaters

 

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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