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August 20th 05, 01:26 AM
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When I'd had my Comanche less than a month, and hadn't yet figured out an
accurate fuel burn rate, I accidently ran a tank dry -- at night over Puget Sound. Switched tanks and hit the boost pump and it started immediately. Then I restarted my heart, turned east and landed at Skagit to fill up. Seth "Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... On 2005-08-19, Paul kgyy wrote: The ACS magazine this month mentions sometimes 2-3 minutes to restart a Comanche engine after running a tank dry. They don't recommend doing it... Not borne out by experience, though. A friend of mine would routinely run a tank dry in his Comanche - when he did it with me on board, the engine caught immediately when the tank was changed. It may as well have been a high wing Cessna single. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" 
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