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Fuel management

Light aircraft with left & right fuel tanks with on or off fuel selectors. Never turn your fuel selectors off (unless you have an emergency situation or are operating to the limits of the aircraft endurance). This is particularly true after start and taxing for the take off. Sample the fuel from the same source

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Aircraft Wind Screens

Many aircraft have been produced with 2mm thick polycarbonate material windscreens. From my observed experience, fuel spills while decanting fuel over the wing, wind wipping up fuel to spill on the windscreen has been the cause of most if not all windscreen crazing/cracking. Its was a big problem in NZ. Jon Farmer did an analysis

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