PA28 Fuel management
The longest leg that I have ever flown a PA28 was 1hr 30min in each direction. For this, I used 45min of fuel from each tank.
Recently I've been thinking about manageing fuel in this aircraft on longer trips. Considering that it is not possible to consume fuel from both tanks at the same time, knowing exactly how much fuel (or time) remains in each tank becomes more critical.
I would be interested to know how pilots go about planning fuel consumption on longish routes. I like to consider worst case scenario with regard to fuel consumption and so normally plan to have 1hr 30min fuel available in each tank with a 30 min reserve each side?