rickofudall
Joined: 19 Sep 2009
Posts: 1392
Location: Udall, KS, USA
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 Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:36 am Post subject: Engine quits in Mid flight -Forced Landing- Fuel starvatio |
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John, E X P E R I M E N T A L. Your experiment with black lines is working for you. Mine with translucent is working for me. When I needed to find the blockage in Zulu Delta's fuel system, having translucent lines certainly worked for me. As long as the system is designed around the material specifications and maintained properly either is just fine and dandy. Some translucent line is better than others. Some black line is better than others. Ho hum.
Rick Girard
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Jack B. Hart <jbhart(at)onlyinternet.net (jbhart(at)onlyinternet.net)> wrote:
[quote] --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Jack B. Hart" <jbhart(at)onlyinternet.net (jbhart(at)onlyinternet.net)>
At 08:21 AM 10/28/09 -0700, you wrote:
>--> Kolb-List message posted by: "JetPilot" <orcabonita(at)hotmail.com (orcabonita(at)hotmail.com)>
>You are very correct John, people parrot this line and have no understanding of how flawed and dangerous their reasoning is.
>
Some of us do not have an electrical system, and some of us have severe
weight restrictions, and so the only way to get the fuel up to the pump and
carburetor is by use of squeeze bulb. If the engine is fitted with a
primer, one could do with out a squeeze bulb. The system could be primed by
hand cranking and running the engine in bursts until the fuel is sucked up
to the pump and the float bowl fills. For an older duffer like me, I prefer
some clear tubing in the system between the pump and the float bowl, so
that, I can see that I have fuel up to the float bowl. I am too old perform
the prime and run in bursts technique to prime the system. By the time I
get it done, I am in no shape to go flying.
I like the vacuum type system, in that there is just a short piece of
pressured line to the carburetor from the pump. It reduces the chance of
and reduces the magnitude of in flight fire, in that, the fire will
extinguish its self once the engine quits. On a pressurized system one must
remember to turn off the pump.
There are pro's and con's. No one system fits all. The danger, if any, is
that it is up to the pilot to recognize the failure modes of his system and
adapt to it.
Third start up of the MZ34. Slowly learning the intricacies of the
Tillotson carburetor.
Jack B. Hart FF004
Winchester, IN
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