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Fuel Flow Monitoring
* This is an outgrowth of the hot starting fuel injection thread
For those of you who have JPI or EDI fuel flow monitoring: a) how many flights did you make before it was "calibrated"? b) how much variance do you see from flight to flight? b1) do you fly approximately the same altitudes/power settings each flight? My case: I rent a 1978 Cherokee Six with an FS-450. I flew it to Oshkosh 2002. Keeping track of flight and leg times on each of the four tanks, I learned that the gauge was reading 25% too high. As I was more interested in flying than playing with the flow gauge, it was not until last month that I finally got around to performing the first correction. As I said, it was reading high, so the correction is to add the percentage of the currently indicated K-factor to that K-factor. That done, a second flight was flown and the times and quantities recorded. This time, the flow was 13% low. Subtract this percentage from the current K-factor. Go fly again, record time and quantity. High by 13%. Add that to the current K-factor. The subsequent two flights were 0.4 gph over and 0.1 gph over. Close enough! |
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