Friend has the cies sensors and gi 275 I believe? Tail wheel plane. How do you accommodate the low indication at rest and higher in flight attitude?
Seems prudent to do the 10 gallons just in case and then we have more on board than required
Nope. Sometimes having 60 extra lbs is what you don’t want. Like these two strips. Knowing precisely what you have means you don’t need to carry tons of extra “prudence” gas. I still land back home with 10-15 gallons.
left cap was dangling when i landed. i didn’t fuel it. my home base fbo did. i will take the blame. i have had this happen 4.times. Caught it three times.
This is very dangerous. The CiES system is amazingly accurate. The EIS totalizer is as well. Had nearly full tanks. Two hours later i had 15 gallons. i had no idea the a missing fuel cap could cause this issue. The fact that during flight had 0 fuel made me think the sensor was wrong. Ii didn’t detect and left rolling tendencies either.
i really talked myself into an indication error. But it wasn’t. It could have really had a bad outcome. I had a retired NFL player who lives on my lake aboard as well.
This picture is a pretty definitive indication that the left fuel cap has an issue.
How many knew that? seriously?
I’m surprised that the bladder didn’t get sucked up and give you a false indication! Or maybe I’m a dummy and your 185 doesn’t have bladders?
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