Im a new member here and a new owner of a Beech Musketeer I/O-360 200hp fuel injected. Have approximately 100 hours flight time and am loving my new plane. Was wondering if anyone who may read this knows where I can buy a fuel stick at to check the fuel accurately in each tank before flight. I have one for the C-172R which I learned to fly in but can't seem to find one anywhere including sporty's or the pilotshop. Am I supposed to use the universal stick or is there one made specifically for the Beech Musketeer? Thanks! Glad to be a member here. Look forward to being involved in some conversations with you guys.

Hi, Sean.

Welcome to Beechtalk.

You'll find a wealth of info here.

A wooden paint stir paddle (free) works as a fuel stick once you mark it with gallon amounts.

Sean, Welcome to BT.

The problem with the Beech Aero Club aircraft and calibrated fuel "sticks" is that the wings have so much dihedral that probably 1/2 the fuel is not visible from the fillers. But as Tom said, they are easy to make from a paint stick or a wooden dowel.

The saving grace is that most of them have the tab with slots in each tank and they are pretty accurate.

If you haven't already, spend $50 and join www.beechaeroclub.org they will have type specific answers to all of your Baby Beech questions.

Sean,
Welcome aboard! You joined the best possible site for learning about your aircraft and other Beech models as well.

Sean, welcome aboard, I had a Super Mouse for 10 years back in the late 80's/early 90's. Great plane. Got my IR in it also.
I always just relyed on the Tabs to gauge fuel, and like Steve said, with all that dihedral you can't even see the fuel below about 1/2 tank.

Welcome Sean

You will really like the Super III. I would just use the tabs in the tanks. With the usefull load there is no reason to take off with real low fuel. I have had my Super III four years & it has done all I ever asked it to. Where did you buy yours at? If you get a chance fly to Enid (KWDG) to their every 4th Sat fly in breakfast. I would love to see your ride. If you have questions I will try to help.

Shannon

Welcome aboard Sean!

We would love to see some more pics of your plane.

To everyone who have replied to my introduction thank you for your warm welcome and advice. I can clearly see this site will be a huge benefit to not only myself but to the existing members and new members yet to come. I'll try and get some new photo's of my plane up soon (having a bit of trouble getting the image size right to upload) but they'll be up in the next couple days (also can ya upload videos as well??). I am actually already planning on flying into Enid for the breakfast fly in soon. I have a buddy up there who flys rotorcraft commercially for atwoods it'd be good to see him and meet some new people. I'll let you know when I'm coming up. Thanks again everyone....I'm really glad I joined!!!

Sean, welcome to BT.

Now I expect you'll run the tanks dry (one at a time per flight!!!!) and refill them to find out how much usable fuel you really have in each.