Fuel gauges whacked

[Timcote1960]

Thanks for all the comments. Yes, I too trained in planes with bad gauges. And since my first preflight, on EVERY flight I look inside and dip the tanks. I KNEW these tanks were full at lift off; problem was there was a sudden dropoff along a flight. How does one know there is not a fuel leak unless one does what I did---land then refill? Having now done that with reassuring results, I have some comfort to fly whatever the gauges say. But otherwise, my hour's remaining flight in this new-to-me plane would have been pure hell imagining blue fuel streaming out behind me.....

My AP says there are 2 different sender systems on different models of the 337; the capacitive and the resistance type. He says mine are capacitive. Then there's "the box" that processes the sender's signals for output to the gauge. He's betting it's the box, which he claims has failed often before in his experience.

I'm not looking for perfection. But hopefully I will soon have gauges that do not throw my wife into the belief that her life is about to suddenly end.

To be continued.

Tim

[mshac]

Tim, are you based at Potomac?

[Timcote1960]

Yup. I fly out of KVKX with David W, also on this board also a 337 nut. He's not as crazy as me tho, as I own two of them. I used to live full-time in DC, then decided to do a 50/50 with a new business started in Cambridge MA. But it's turning into 80/20 MA/DC as the business is rocking and the wife is doing a masters at Tufts. So am I still out of KVKX? Sorta....

Tim