Congrats Arlen! I've got many hours right seat in my friends T310R, it's a hauling airplane with lots of room for all the Pilot N Paws dogs we fly. We had 15 dogs in one trip, lots of puppies. He was flying solo on another trip when he had a lab get out of her crate, she just stood on top of the crate looking out the window or watching him fly.

Good airplane, you will enjoy it!

In many cases there are also nacelle tanks. 20 gal each. Pumps from the nacelle tank to the tip tank (aka the main) on the same side the nacelle tank is located. No fuel gauge. Run it until the "tank empty" light illuminates. 25 minute transfer time. Time it to make sure it was full when you started (if you forgot to look).

Process is to run both engines off the main into which the fuel is being transferred. Once it is dry you will have about five extra gallons in the main. Continue feeding both engines out of the main on one side until fuel is balanced. Then switch back to mode where each engine is feeding from tip tank on same side as engine.

It is not hard but it is more complex than many fuel systems.

Nice ride Arlen. like the Scarlet color too!

I put a few hours on OSU's 310 over the years, it was a nice plane to fly.

Now bring her on over to KPGD for some exercise.

Mike

Yeah, I have about a foot on each side.....gotta drive it right down the center to get it safely in the hangar.

My first "real" airplane was a 1964 310I with 2-bladed props. It was a great airplane and hauled my family of five (kids were small at the time) and all our bags in comfort at an honest 180KAS. We went all over in that airplane and never cancelled a flight due to maintenance.

One note - I recall my airplane had 140 gallons of fuel. Could be memory fails after all these years.

N533G is still flying and looks like it will outlive me.

I know you will enjoy your new airplane.

That strikes me as operator-induced complexity, and needless at that. I understand it may be manufacturer guided, but still, all of that cross feeding, balancing, valve switching when you could just burn down the mains by 25 gallons and then pump out the nacelles? Why?

I'm assuming Mark is talking about installations with one nacelle tank, which are common on twin Cs.

I never even considered that an option. I understand.

Often it's not nacelleS but nacelle. You are dumping an extra 20+ gallons into only ONE tip tank.

I never even considered that an option. I understand.

Congratulations Arlen she is a beauty. My hangar neighbor has a 310Q and man does that plane sound great. Looks like you did well.

I used to fly a Cessna 421B that held 25 (?) gal. In the left nacelle and the freon A/C unit in the right. Don't recall ever having any problems getting to all of the useable fuel.
MM

I was in a five plane (four students and one chase instructor) formation flight in T2As (single engine jet trainers) out of Meridian MS at about 15K feet and here comes this GA twin blasting right through the middle of our gaggle. The instructor gave chase trying to ID the guy and couldn't. The T2As normally flew about 230 KIAS at that altitude and would maybe hit a little over 350 true if you cobbed it.On the ground later I asked what it was and was told it was a Cessna 310, probably a turbo. I remember thinking "Man, I didn't know those sumbeaches were so fast".

I think this might be limited to the 310 I - Q. My 310R has 50 in the tips and 31.5 in each inboard aux for a total of 163gal. I do not have nacelle tanks.

Congratulations Arlen!

I believe my love of aviation comes from the time I spent in the back of my father's 310. If I close my eyes, I can still picture and feel those soft velour seats... awesome memories.

That's a sweet ride and I like the colors. Enjoy!

Carlos