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Old 16th March 2015 | 10:14
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Rod1
 
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"Slightly off thread I find a lot of pilots do not turn the fuel selector to OFF at the termination of a flight "

Personally - I never do this as I think it is safer to keep it on.

If I walk up to the aircraft and it is sat in a pool of fuel I am not going to fly it! If I switch the fuel off I may not find out about the issue till later...

The fuel selector often has no maintenance schedule. I know of a number of aircraft that have suffered fuel selector failure at the point of max fuel pressure - normally just after takeoff and the pilots have been killed or burned - and one when the pilot was sprayed with fuel but got the cub down and it did not go bang.

I check my selector every 3 months. This confirms it is working.

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