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Old 2nd August 2002 | 22:13
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AfricanEagle
 
Joined: Aug 2002
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From: Italy
Mattpilot,

you may have full tanks and all seletors open and still have the engine starve... especially when they manage to give you contaminated fuel.

I had an engine failure 15 minutes after starting up and one minute after taking off, at 300ft. Engine just went silent, was lucky, lots of fields, landed without a scratch.

Aircraft was a VLA with rotax engine, I was using unlead petrol: investigation revealed 11 litres of water in 40 litres of fuel.
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