Tony,?I'm ?on the same page as you are. I would love to have the range to be able to fly from Seattle to Ketchikan Ak. or Miami to the Turks and Caicos Islands non stop. It might be by my self but what a trip.I have a medical condition which requires me to drink a lot of water. ?Bladder relief has never been an issue with me being an over the road truck driver and the most I can drive now is eight hours without a thirty minuet ?break.? Paul ViskBelleville Il618-406-4705
-------- Original message --------From: Tony King via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> Date: 8/24/2015 4:45 PM (GMT-06:00) To: KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> Cc: Tony King <tking58 at gmail.com> Subject: Re: KR> Fuel Capacity Mike, I can't tell whether your tougue is firmly in your cheek there - I think it must be.? I always understood bladder tanks were an alternative approach to having fuel vents, since the tank expands and contracts according to the volume of fuel remaining. For me there's little correlation between fuel capacity/range and bladder capacity (or other elements of in flight comfort).? I want extended range (well beyond bladder capacity) so I can go somewhere interesting and come home again without refuelling.? There are lots of places in Australia where fuel's not so readily available as it seems to be in the US. Cheers, Tony On 25 August 2015 at 06:20, Mike Stirewalt via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > There seems to be a lot of concern about having so much fuel capacity > that the flight will be so lengthy that the pilot's bladder capacity will > be exceeded.? Pilots & aircraft manufacturers solved this problem in the > early days of aviation and I'm astonished that some members of the KR > community are apparently oblivious of this aspect of aviation history. > For situations where pilot or passenger bladder capacity is exceeded or > about to be exceeded, there is a nifty thing called a "bladder tank". > These tanks can be either permanently installed or temporarily installed. > > > From Wikipedia: > > > "Many high-performance light aircraft, helicopters and some smaller > turboprop aircraft use bladder tanks." > > Now you know!? You can buy them ready to go or we can build them > ourselves.? Naturally we would want to build our own bladder tanks. > > I don't have one and must confess I've had to make occasional emergency > descents to strange airports whose residents were startled to see my tiny > plane appearing unexpectedly out of the blue at high speed only to > disappear into the bushes.?? Putting in a bladder tank has been on my > to-do list since the beginning but it has so far not become enough of a > critical issue to actually do it. > > Mike > KSEE > > ____________________________________________________________ > Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. > http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2 > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options > _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options
