Re: Carter 4070 electric fuel pump plumbing [message #261612 is a reply to message #261609] |
Thu, 11 September 2014 12:31 |
A Hamilto
Messages: 4508 Registered: April 2011
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Ken Burton wrote on Thu, 11 September 2014 12:07Actually the one that got my attention the most was when I ran a tank dry on final at about 300 feet after dark. There were trees all around the strip so going straight ahead and landing short was not an option. I headed for a corn field and went through (in my head) very quickly my engine failure check list. Mixture full rich, electric fuel pump on, switch tanks, verify magneto on both, and line up with the corn rows for landing. At about 50 feet the engine restarted and I went back to the unlighted airstrip for a normal landing. There was a part of a Bill Cosby routine where he talks about mom telling you to put on clean underwear in case you get in an accident. He said it doesn't matter. When you see the disaster developing, first you say it, then you do it. And that's it for the clean underwear.
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