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Old 12th Dec 2013, 08:01
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Arkroyal
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Question

Many years ago I was a QHI teaching my student in the circuit at our satellite airfield in a Wessex 5. Nearing the end of the sortie, with fuel low but not critical,, I thought he would benefit from one final circuit which we flew before rtb.

We landed with our minimum fuel allowance and ground tacked to stand, and just as we stopped, a low fuel pressure warning illuminated and one of the engines flamed out.

The associated fuel tank was bone dry, but the gauge I indicated 90 lbs.

Much older technology, but impossible now?
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