Originally Posted by
gerry111
Hopefully not too many instructors get their students to do a tank change on their first solo! (Trivia but VPO's a Warrior 111.)
You'd hope not - but stranger things have happened.
Warrior IIs and IIIs describe almost everything I've flown in recent years and the fuel selector issue is common to both (and many other Cherokee singles). It's really not a big deal.. it's just important to switch it positively and correctly and not to the 'off' position (which is easy to do in older models without the detent) and preferably not on downwind either!... unless you're up for a glide approach.