"Wizard of Draws" wrote in message
news:BDE5017D.3C5DE%jeffbTAKEOUTALLCAPS@wizardofdr aws.com...
On 12/14/04 8:16 PM, in article XfMvd.4651$Z%1.9@trnddc03, "Casey Wilson"
wrote:

Here's the embarrassing part. The noise? When I'd shut the door,
I'd
left the tail end of the seat belt strap hanging outside-just about
two-,

I had the same thing happen to me on one of my x-c's during training. It
sounded like it was overhead and I thought I had left the gas cap loose.
Lesson learned.
--

I did leave the gas cap off my 172 once, after I dipped the tanks during
preflight. I had a funny radio problem and I called my CFI on his mobile,
turned out he was hanging around at another ramp so I taxied it over to show
it to him. He couldn't figure anything out so I went to taxi back. I noticed
a smell of fuel, much stronger than usual, and then I saw the trickle coming
down the window. My penance was to spend 3 hours scrubbing fuel off every
inch of the plane. In the roughly ten minutes the engines were running I
think it sucked half the tank out. Hate to think what would happen in
flight.

-cwk.