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Bryan,
You may be able to add a fuel gauge to the wings but it won't be all that useful. I have flown over 100 private aircraft and have only seen accurate fuel gauges in 1 of them. My 320 has gauges in all 3 tanks and they work some of the time.
What you should do is install a fuel flow instrument. With fuel flow, you will not only know, much more accurately, how much fuel that you have. You will know how much longer you can fly. Fuel flow instruments are much more accurate than gauges and the install would be in the engine compartment (and panel) and not in the fuel tanks.
Besides fuel gauges for my mains (which sometimes work), I have site gauges, I can't see the fuel level with my sight gauges but I can see when the Facet pumps are sucking air. When I am under 11 gallons and the Facet pumps are sucking air, I want to be within an hour or so of my destination.
Lorn
From: "Bryan Wullner" <vonjet@gmail.com>
Date: September 27, 2008 8:21:47 AM GMT-04:00
On my 360 they do not have fuel gauges in the wings. Anybody have any ideas on how I can add somethign to be able to check the quantity of my wing tanks in flight. The wings are already closed up.
Bryan
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Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, MAA, ASMEL, ASES, Comm, Inst
DynaComm, Corp., 248-345-0500, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.us
LNC2, FB90/92, O-320-D1F, 1,470 hrs, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan
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