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Old 14th May 2011, 12:01
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AdamFrisch
 
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Problem with many fuel totalizers are that they only count the fuel that goes to the engine. Many engines, like mine and other Lycomings, "overfeed" the engine and then has a fuel return that goes back into the tank for the stuff it doesn't use. So you need two measuring points, one additive and one subtractive - most totalizers don't do this.
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