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CT4ME

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  1. More news from Aero... LSA under development by FD's parent company, Lift. The Horten Flying Wing... https://generalaviationnews.com/2019/04/09/new-lsa-east-meets-west/
  2. ditto here... (ctsw2006) random light (not often) during warm up, unless rpm's are higher. Never seems to happen later in day
  3. I don't get it. Whats the difference between his name and yours? Or anyone's? I don't see a CV/Bio posted with your name or any other poster. Would you take advice from a poster with the name "RotaxGuru" with no posting history, or poor history? Or "JoeBlo" with 1,000 thoughtful, informative posts. In any case, you could always PM the person to discuss your questions or comments. What exact policy would make you happy? v
  4. That is the choice of a poster. The credibility of a poster is determined by their historical posts, not their name. I think Safety Officer's posts speak for themselves.
  5. Left or right... from pilot position? Mine feeds more readily from the right tank (from seated perspective)
  6. It's always going to be an issue... between slosh, angles, and forces associated with flying, there will be some "unavailable" fuel sometime. I'd rather start out with 34, and end up with 28, than start out with 25 and end up with 20. I've flown around 700 hours in CTs and only had one "close call". That particular time was a 4.5 hr flight, and I landed with 8 gallons in the tank I thought was low. I suspect you'd hear similar experiences from the high-hours-in-CT folks here on the forum.
  7. There seems to be 2 scenarios: Selectable fuel valve (left/right/both/off) or a simpler ON/OFF. With the selectable valve, the routine is generally a time interval thing, where you change the valve every X minutes. Many aviation timers have been invented to facilitate these reminders. The other scenario, like the CT, requires the pilot to be familiar with the potential for uneven tank use and to monitor and compensate for it. The problem with the selectable fuel valve is that history has proven that it's easy to forget, or turn the valve the wrong way, or to a bad position, and you end up with a problem. A large number of incidents are directly attributed to fuel valve screw-ups. Both methods have their proponents. The new CTs, and perhaps other aircraft, have a header tank that collects from both wings. It's not there solely for the feed problem, but it helps mitigate the issue. But, then, it creates another problem of having another tank somewhere in the plane, that you have to worry about.
  8. The old Bob Hoover routine with him pouring a glass of tea while doing a barrel roll says it all.
  9. And it's not just the CT... Uneven fuel flow has been an issue with high-wing aircraft forever. Just Google "uneven fuel flow high wings" or throw in the word Cessna. Hundreds of thousands of hits. Oft-discussed and well-documented. I do wish FD would have documented the issue more in the manual, and placed a warning placard near the site tubes.
  10. I use mine. As a conservative flier, I'm almost always in the deep green, but it does start alerting me and goes to red when doing stalls.
  11. No expert here, and looking forward to others' ideas, but I don't think you would measure that in seconds.... maybe minutes... several.
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