>I hope these questions aren't too basic No such thing. >1. How often does water get into (your) gas tanks by condensation or other wise? Practically never, if you keep it hangared. 'Coupes and lots of other older planes with the bent wire fuel guage (the one on the header tank) will have condensation run down the wire into the tank if left outside. It's not a big deal; you can get covers to prevent it, or the glass tube guage, or I've heard of folks enlarging the hold on a baby bottle nipple and pulling it down over the wire to prevent this.
>2. If water does get into the tanks, is it necessary to dump all of the >gas? Depends on how much water. Generally, no. When you check the drains on preflight, you might see a little bead of water at the bottom of you drain cup. That's usually all there is in the tank. Now if someone had dumped LOTS of water directly into the tank...well, that's a different story. Hard to see how that would happen except on purpose of if you ditched. >3. Do you folks ever have a problem with contaminents in the fuel you buy? I haven't, but there's a lawsuit going on in Australia about this right now -- a whole bunch of GA planes got grounded. I use a specific gravity fuel tester (Sporty's, about $11) that has a little bead in the bottom that will float if there's Jet A or something else unseen of different density in there. >I apologize for being such a novice No need! Asking is the only way to learn. Good luck! Leslie 3B9 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --------------------------------- to unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________ Who will win the Oscars? Spout off on our Entertainment list! http://www.topica.com/lists/showbiztalk
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