Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:19:22 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from hestia.email.starband.net ([148.78.247.131] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 2957008 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:22:18 -0500 Received: from starband.net (vsat-148-64-23-255.c050.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.64.23.255]) by hestia.email.starband.net (8.12.9/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0U8LrRJ003494 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:21:56 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <401A1433.5020408@starband.net> X-Original-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:22:11 -0800 From: "Hamid A. Wasti" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] EIFS cal. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rob Logan wrote: >yea, steam gauge guys don't hafta do all this, but isn't it >fun to know down to .5gal how much gas you have in each tank :-) > It is indeed fun, but only as long as you do not start to stretch your flights to land with just the 2.0 then 1.5 then 1.0 and finally just 0.5 gallons in the tank. One of the down sides of having such accurate equipment is that as we build confidence in it, we tend to start shaving off safety margins and that can come back to bite us. This is true not just for aviation, but in many personal and professional areas of our lives. Hamid