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It's reading like someone on this forum is FAA personal, what capacity I can't tell but if one of you are , be up front with us, don't go about it trying to get someone in trouble. Again if one is, you could be a help not a hinderance to us. ---I know we are to know the FAR's better than they do, but as we see, a lot of rules are subject to interpation. We know a lot of owners of old craft want to put them back to as close to stock as they can. Do these rules prevent them from doing that.? ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Saville <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sydney Cohen <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jan E Zanutto <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] FUEL CATCH 22.doc I have a stock ol' 415C from back in the 1946 era. It still has the brass floats with wire gauges in all three tanks. Call 'em what you want, but I like having a 'positive reading' gauge in each tank. This way I know 'exactly' what the status is in all three tanks, but I only watch the one in front of my eyes. As long as it's still bouncing around at 'full staff' I'm happy. When it starts moving, I start looking.....for an airport. If my wing wires are riding on the top of the cap I know I'm low on fuel. If the wing wires are still riding high, I know I've lost a fuel pump. Either way, it's time to start hunting for a gas pump. Bob Saville Sydney Cohen wrote: ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Jan, we have the cork-and-wire guage in the header tank and, if we have 9 gallon wing tanks, the sight guage in the left tank. If we have 7.7 gallon wing tanks, commonly called 8 gallon tanks, we have the cork-and-wire guage there. No need to call the wing tanks "auxilliary tanks." I'm sure the Feds would not go for that designation, anyway, since there is quite a bit of plumbing and the fuel pump between the wing tanks and the header tank. Syd Cohen Jan E Zanutto wrote: ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Fuel gauges need not be provided for small auxiliary tanks which are used onlyto transfer fuel to other tanks ~~~ I'm pretty sure that this covers our coupes.It can be argued that our outer tanks have no other purpose than to feed the header tank..... which has it's own gauge. The CARs are published on the FAA.GOV website. It would benefit us all to read them and become familiar with them. Any "ramp check" needs to be conducted in accordance with the regulation that the aircraft was designed and built under. The basic cockpit layout of the Ercoupe violates FAR 21, which states that the instruments need to be within view of the pilot and visible within X number of degrees from the side. Our planes have instruments spread all over the place in such a fashion that you need to poke your head over into your passenger's personal space to read them; but it was ok under the CARs. Jan ZFresno ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ========================================================================== ==== 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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