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Subject: Flying: Fuel starvation
From: Alan Stewart <alans@kbss.bt.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:25:23

> From: Tennant@t-online.de (Barry Tennant)

> Norman Adam in Bruggen has had this happen twice and he said that the motor is

> running within few seconds after switching to reserve with no noticable loss
of 
> height. The motor windmills and the mechanical pump pulls up fuel quickly with

> the help of the electric pump.


> when he was mentioning how economic the plane is everything went quiet in 
> front.

That's very encouraging Barry.

Do I understand that in Norman's cases, the engine actually stopped and had
to be restarted, or did the revs just drop and power decrease ?

alan


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