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How about we lobby congress to apply all FAA rules to all Auto & Trucks. Driver requirements same as private pilots and Veh. same as planes. Wouldn't that decongest the roadways?? They (our Government Beurocrats) are safteying us to death... ----- Original Message ----- From: Kenneth Neill <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Carnahan To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 8:38 PM Subject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] FUEL CATCH 22.doc ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- FUEL CATCH 22 14 CFR 91.203 is the famous "Ramp Check" FAR. 91.203 (2) (b) No person may operate a civil aircraft unless the airworthiness certificate is displayed at the cockpit entrance so that it is legible to passengers or crew. Does the Cessna certificate holder down by the pilots left leg meet this requirement? 91.203 (2) © No person may operate an aircraft with a fuel tank installed within the passenger compartment or a baggage compartment unless a copy of FAA form 337 authorizing that installation is on board the Aircraft. This is basically a drug rule but could you prove to a customs inspector that it doesn't apply to your original equipment tanks. 91.203 (2) (d) No person may operate a civil airplane into or out of an airport in the United States unless it complies with the fuel venting and exhaust emissions requirements of part 34 of this chapter. Does anyone know what Part 34 says??? It's for turbine engines, but did you know that??? Could you look it up in your FAR-AIM??? 14 CFR 91.205 Instrument and Equipment requirements. Item (b) (9) requires that there be a fuel gauge indicating the quantity of fuel in each tank. What about Auxiliary Tanks?? Exceptions??? To answer this we have to go to the regulations governing the original design of the aircraft. Civil Aeronautics Manual 3 (CAM 3) 3.672 Fuel Quantity Indicator. Means shall be provided to indicate to the flight personnel, the quantity of fuel in each tank during flight. Tanks, the outlets and airspaces of which are interconnected, may be considered as one tank and need not be provided with separate indicators. Fuel quantity gauges shall be calibrated to read zero during level flight when the quantity of fuel remaining in the tank is equal to the unusable fuel supply as defined by section 3.437. Fuel gauges need not be provided for small auxiliary tanks which are used only to transfer fuel to other tanks ~~~ Civil Aeronautics Manual 4a (CAM 4a) Gauge. A satisfactory gauge shall be so installed on all airplanes as to readily indicate to a pilot or flight mechanic, the quantity of fuel in each tank while in flight. When two or more tanks are closely interconnected and vented, and it is impossible to feed from each one separately, only one fuel level gauge need be installed. 14 CFR Part 23. 23.1337 Powerplant Instruments Installation. (b) Fuel quantity Indication) There must be a means to indicate to the flight crew members, the quantity of useable fuel in each tank during flight. An indicator calibrated in appropriate units and clearly marked to indicate those units, must be used. In addition: (1) Each fuel quantity indicator must be calibrated to read "Zero" during level flight when the quantity of fuel remaining in the tank is equal to the unusable fuel supply determined under 23.959(a). (Determined in a max power steep climb) (4) There must be a means to indicate the amount of useable fuel in each tank when the airplane is on the ground. (Such as by a stick gauge). Can you use a stick gauge in the wing tank of a taildragger with a small amount of useable fuel??? (Catch 22) (5) Tanks with interconnected outlets and airspaces may be considered as one tank and need not have separate indicators; and (6) No fuel quantity indicator is required for an auxiliary tank that is used only to transfer fuel to other tanks ~~~ (This goes on to describe the conditions of transfer) So where do they get this crap in 91.205 (b) (9) that you must have a fuel gauge in each tank??? ========================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ========================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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