206L-1 fuel system
Anyone have a good schematic and/or tutorial of the 206L-1 fuel indicating and low fuel level warning system for a Bell 206L-1?
Can’t find one on line.
Just having a very minor friendly debate with a friend and we have agreed to disagree on a few very minor, obscure points.
We do agree that if the darn light comes on “Plan to Land soon as possible and within minutes ” while avoiding violent Aerobatic maneuvers is the way to go.
Thanks.
As an aside …Many years ago : Had a guy walk into a tent one foggy day and tell me he was glad to be there because the “Low fuel light” had come on. He was flying an old 206 A converted to a 206B ….took him out to the aircraft and said “show me”. Master on fuel valve on Pump CB in humm…Boost pump warning light on. Gauge bouncing on zero…He was shocked to learn this was not a “Low Fuel” warning light and that he was about to flame out. Lucky guy because he got to the camp by flying down a very fast, very cold river at 50 feet.
Another bright spark in a 206B having deviated due Wx and at a very low fuel state had the boost pump light come on so did the right thing and landed beside a road less than 1/2 a mile from the hangar. However when he landed the light went out due to the change in attitude so he decided to avoid the embarrassment of walking or hitching a ride to the hangar for a couple of jerry cans of fuel and try to get to the hangar. He picked it up and rotated forward …”beep, beep, Crash, Bang” …aircraft on her side in the ditch. Fortunately he wasn’t too badly injured. The boss was far from happy. Well, at least it was easy to get the aircraft out of the ditch and off to the rebuilders for some TLC.