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Old 10th May 2012, 04:32
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Pilot DAR
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After my very favourable C310 flying, and getting happily use to managing six fuel tanks, a friend and I ferried a Cessna 303 eastbound across the Atlantic via Greenland and Iceland. The trip was within the aircraft's internal fuel range capability, with appropriate alternates. But, it is still un-nerving having only two tanks (left and right), and seeing the quantity indicators bouncing between 1/4 and empty, and not seeing Iceland yet! I would rather have had four empty, and two surely indicating more than half full!
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