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  • Comment on "Best Time to Fly"

    ...@GeorgeB asking, how many people had been caught out by conditions / fuel, etc yet???  Most have,...vote on GeoBlaze's Poll ( So... despite having done careful fuel planning, have you ever found yourself...

  • Comment on ""Black Out" Landings (When to flare if landing in the Dark)"

    Wow, scary story!!  Yep "unexpected" headwinds happen all the time !!!  Plan for the unexpected !  @GeoBlaze 's Great Poll (and comments) on running out of Fuel would also apply to running out of Sunlight!!!

  • Comment on "Tanarg ready for Travel"

    THX X... rumor has it we are in the early stages of planning a XC flight back to Wallaby with stops in many southern states along the way... I don't think we have enough fuel to fly across TEXAS though, so we might have to stop there.

  • Comment on "Santa Paula Trike Fly-in"

    Planning on Flying over from Boulder City... and departing from Santa Paula to my new stomping grounds up in Reno.... Planning, many many details yet to be figured out....

  • Comment on "GPS Day1"

    That's a long flight for one day in the middle of nowhere. It was a long one day flight for us just to fly from Page, AZ up lake Powell to Monument Valley. Very cool- very impressive triking !!! Awesome fuel management and planning

  • Comment on "GPS Day 4"

    ...on airstrips along the way without fuel), so those legs were likely l...I could work on some inflight refueling options like @GeorgeB and...sp;    It is a huge planning, and constant mental chal...ather (micro & macro).  A fuel computer helps a lot, but only go...

  • Comment on "The Expeditions of Crayon Box (works in Europe too Jozinko!)"

    ...aps. I do occasionally look at Skyvector to make some preliminary plans, but prefer to use an app on my ipad called ozrunways for full nav planning with fuel distance time winds etc.

  • Comment on "sunset_flight"

    ...://alltrikes.com/elgg/polls/view/17764/so-despite-having-done-careful-fuel-planning-have-you-ever-found-yours...-arriving-at-your-destination-with-a-very-uncomfortably-low-amount-of-fuel Have you ever had an engine ou...

  • Comment on "Fuel return line location on Rotax912"

    My new 100HP 912 engine comes with the fuel block with an orifice (restrictor jet). So fuel pressure will be kept in the fuel system. According to the engine installation manual, there are 2 teypes of fuel blo...

  • Comment on "GPS Day 4"

    ...t's good for over 5 hours at cruise.  If I'm planning on a 4 hour trip, I feel...a 6 hour trip, there's no worries. I use the MGL fuel computer in the Enigma, very similar to your MGL fuel computer, and adjusted it as you...