Forced landing on 36st YYC April 2018 - We got Video of it!

[Colonel]

[quote]You have to trust your calculations[/quote]

Reminds me ....

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider#Refueling]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider#Refueling[/url]

[quote]Captain Pearson double-checked their calculations but was given the same incorrect conversion factor and inevitably came up with the same erroneous figures[/quote]

I strongly recommended to any owner/pilot that I taught,
to install a fuel totalizer and calibrate it and learn how to
use it.  They are ridiculously cheap and amazingly accurate.

I remember the owner of a buck fifty ran it out of gas and
damaged it in an off-field landing.  After an expensive repair,
he finally took my advice, installed a fuel totalizer and told
me it was fantastic - now he knew exactly how much fuel
he had on board!  To the best of my knowledge, he has not
repeated the error, so clearly the fuel totalizer was of no
help whatsoever to him.

I always thought that a fuel totalizer was cheaper than
wrecking the airplane, but people in Canada didn't think
I was very bright compared to them.

IMHO flying out of the pattern without a fuel totalizer is
like flying x/c without a GPS.  Is that really the best choice?

[Nark1]

As Andy stated: Fuel totalizer...


I will bet my life on the totalizer, but definetly not on the fuel gauges.