Comments on: A day well wasted http://blog.xcski.com/2007/08/27/a-day-well-wasted Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:30:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Gordon http://blog.xcski.com/2007/08/27/a-day-well-wasted#comment-46693 Gordon Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:58:29 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/08/27/a-day-well-wasted#comment-46693 During the runup of my second flight with a passenger (my mom) one of the mags failed the test. Fortunately, it re-started just fine after I ran through the checklists and made sure that everything else was as it should be. The replacement plane passed the tests and I'm happy to report that the flight was otherwise uneventful. Why isn't there a greater difference in the fuel pressure between when the fuel pump is turned off and when it's turned on? During the runup of my second flight with a passenger (my mom) one of the mags failed the test. Fortunately, it re-started just fine after I ran through the checklists and made sure that everything else was as it should be. The replacement plane passed the tests and I’m happy to report that the flight was otherwise uneventful.

Why isn’t there a greater difference in the fuel pressure between when the fuel pump is turned off and when it’s turned on?

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