On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:43:54 -0700 (PDT), terry
wrote:

On Mar 15, 6:56*pm, Ron Garret wrote:
It occurred to me today that in fifteen years of flying I have never
once found water in my fuel when I've drained my tanks. *Not a drop. *
Ever. *Am I just lucky, or is this really as rare an occurrence as it
seems to be? *(I fly in SoCal. *Maybe that has something to do with it.)

Sounds unusual to me. But I live in a more humid place .

I live in a humid and damp place (New England, USA), and I've seen it
exactly once, attributed to am incorrectly installed cap and hard
rain. The other tank was fine.

In fact, so much water got in the tank, it took two GATTS jars to see
fuel! Imagine the surprise of draining a full jar of colorless
liquid. The second jar produced ~ 1" of fuel at the top. If I were
using one of those little test tube testers, I probably would have
pulled 4-5 fills before I got to fuel.