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From: keifer@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Switching Fuel Tanks
Message-ID: <7900035@uiucdcs>
Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 21:34:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 21:34:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!keifer    Mar  8 20:34:00 1986


I am a student pilot (soloed) finishing the Private Pilot
certification at the University of Illinois.  We fly Beechcraft Sports
here (BE-19-180) which have fuel selector knobs to switch tanks.  
We've been taught that the most common cause of engine failure is fuel
starvation, and that this is most common when you forget to switch
tanks.  

Why don't they make airplanes so that both fuel tanks supply fuel to
the engine at the same time?  Seems like this would make things a lot
easier.  You wouldn't forget to switch tanks, since you wouldn't have
to.

Any comments?

		Gunnar Seaburg
		c/o keifer@uiucdcs