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Old 3rd December 2003 | 15:28
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Genghis the Engineer
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Incidentally, a lot of aircraft use capacitance based gauges, which read differently with different brands of fuel, water content, cycle of the moon, etc. anyway.

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N.B. Re-reading my previous post, I find myself wondering how you achieve level flight with an empty fuel tank anyway? Slightly spurious requirement one might argue !
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