"Robert M. Gary" writes:

Flying over the Sierras, dodging TS's is exciting enough,

Yeah, been there, didn't enjoy it.

I don't need to turn off the fan to add more excitment to my life.

We seem to have diverging groups. Some of us see running a tank (nearly)
dry as a non-event. Others see it as "turn[ing] off the fan". I've seen
a few references to the *possibility* that some planes will actually lose
power for more than an instant if the tank is run down. Are any of us
who run the tanks "dry" actually experiencing this? I suspect that the
reason most of us who do this don't get so excited about it is because it
is such a non-event. Is that plane-specific?

(I've had it take a long time to figure out which tank just went dry when
an engine started surging. It wakes me up but it's sure not so exciting
that I'd avoid the practice.)

--kyler