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Old 14th Feb 2014, 19:53
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Sven Sixtoo
 
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Absolutely possible, as are a number of other cockpit scenarios.

The one of real interest is why both transfer pumps were selected OFF. Firstly, I'm not keen on a fuel system that needs playing with at low fuel levels as one goes from hover to forward flight and back again. Second, the layout of the system is obviously less than best practice for the police role where changes from hover to forward flight and back while exploiting fuel limits to the edge to get the task done must be commonplace.

Does anyone with type experience know if the intermittent FUEL LOW warnings on no1 and single continuous warning on No2 are typical? It does seem odd to me that the two systems would behave so differently. Is there anything to be drawn from that?
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