Graham, In the USA the FAA requires some type of fuel indicator for each fuel tank, you would have to install either a sight gauge, or a fuel sending unit on each tank. I assumed the Austrailian regulations were tougher than USA, but you may wish to check that plan.
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:52:24 +0930, Graham & Ruth Strout <str...@riverland.net.au> wrote: > I'm modifying my seats by lowering the pilots, and the exiting passenger > seat will be done away with (no one wants to fly with me any how) and > which will be replaced with a deck from the front spar to the aft spar. > I'll end with a single seater with room on the passenger side for junk. > It will all be done in aluminium > The avaliable space for my hips between the left hand wall and the > elevator rod is 16". Its a 'comfortable' fit. Does this sound about > right? Has any one moved the centre mounted joystick and elevator rod > towards the passenger side and once through the aft spar, centralized > the movement? If not could it be done? > Under the exiting pilots seat (a plywood deck) is a 3 way fuel cock ie > left wing / right wing /off and a small electric lift pump which > transfers fuel from the wing tanks to the top of the header tank. Both > these will have to be relocated to the space under the passenger side. I > what to use this opportunnity to consider other options. How do other > pilots manage this fuel transfer? Do I need the fuel cock? Could it be > replaced with a connecting T peice, hence drawing fuel evenly from both > sides.There are no fuel gauges in the wing tanks. Accurate fuel burn > records and fuel transfer rates would have to be kept enroute to > establish what would be left in the wing tanks. Is this what everyone > else does or is there a better way and equipment to manage this fuel > transfer? > Thanks Graham > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
