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Post subject: '77 Lance - checking fuel sump drain  Posted: 19 Oct 2015, 17:28 |
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I am just getting checked out in a '77 Lance. When checking the fuel sump drain, what is commonly used to capture all the fuel that is drained? My CFI just drained it on to the ground.
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Post subject: Re: '77 Lance - checking fuel sump drain Posted: 20 Oct 2015, 12:00 |
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Greg, it's been a few years since I flew a Cherokee-6 but we typically just drained it on the ground. My CFI mentioned that if you wanted to go to the trouble you could put a clean catch pan on the ground prior to climbing in and doing the drain then climb back out and under to retrieve the pan. Or do a two-man operation.
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Post subject: Re: '77 Lance - checking fuel sump drain Posted: 20 Oct 2015, 12:03 |
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when we had one I drained it into a folger's coffee can and dumped it into the lawnmower in the hangar that i used as a tug
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Post subject: Re: '77 Lance - checking fuel sump drain Posted: 20 Oct 2015, 21:10 |
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If you drain it onto the ground you can't see what, if any, contaminants are in the tanks. Two words: GATS Jar. http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/a ... ueljar.phpBesides, if you let the gas run into the ground, you are destroying the planet! 
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