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TSO High Altitude FAA Approved Mask
with comfort fit headgear
King Air Replacement Mask Carbon Fiber
since it is mounted on the fuel filter if we failed to close the Fuel
downstream of the shut-off valve. So how do we know the right pump is really pumping? For all of the models with engine-driven boost pumps, we don’t know ... until enough time has elapsed to confirm that the proper side’s fuel level is decreasing. (For the C90-style fuel system – the system without engine- driven boost pumps – we know the right pump is operating since the left fuel pressure annunciator remained extinguished after we turned off the left boost pump.)
We fly for another couple of hours and now the gauges read 500 pounds left and 200 pounds right. We stop crossfeeding and return to feeding the left engine from its own nacelle tank. Ah, there’s Goose Bay! We make an uneventful single-engine landing and now face the hardest task ... getting to the ramp on one engine!
One last point to mention: Do not worry about fuel being lost even
Firewall Shut-off Valve on the engine we secured. The condition lever being in cutoff will prevent any fuel from reaching the dead engine’s combustion chamber and then draining overboard.
I hope this review has been enlightening. Questions? Please write and ask them; I will be happy to respond. KA
King Air expert Tom Clements has been flying and instructing in King Airs for over 46 years, and is the author of “The King Air Book.” He is a Gold Seal CFI and has over 23,000 total hours with more than 15,000 in King Airs. For information on ordering his book, contact Tom direct at twcaz@msn.com. Tom is actively mentoring the instructors at King Air Academy in Phoenix.
If you have a question you’d like Tom to answer, please send it to Editor Kim Blonigen at editor@ blonigen.net.
MAY 2019
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