Kenny Keller and Chris Hauser show how to check fuel on an Enstrom F28F helicopter using the dip stick. The tanks hold about 28 to 30 gallons total and are gravity-fed and interconnected. They stress checking fuel before every flight.
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Enstrom F28F
January 31, 2011
About 28–30 gallons total (spoken as "say we're about 30 gallons, 28 gallons").
Tanks are gravity fed and interconnected, so dipping one side reflects total fuel.
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That's horrible.
So here's Chris Hauser demonstrating the proper way to check the fuel on the Edstrom F28F. It's very easy to do. And this needs to be done every single time you go fly. Every time. Not just part of the time. It needs to be done every time. We know a couple of friends of ours that had a little issue and it came from not taking the stick out and checking it. And that's the bottom line. You gotta check it every single time. So show us, Chris, show us on the dipstick. I mean, show us on the fuel stick how we tell how much fuel we're gonna need. Because people get confused on this.
Well, let me show you.
That's where guys get into trouble. Because if you're not thinking, make sure.
You'Re on the correct side. One side's for fuel and the other side is for your oleo struts. So your fuel side. It's real simple. Take your stick, you're going to dip the tank, what we call dip the tanks. Put it in there, take the top of the tank to the line, And all you're going to do is read it. As you can see, we're sitting right there. So say we're about 30 gallons, 28 gallons, somewhere in there.
Okay. And then explain to them how people get confused sometimes how this fuel works between the two tanks and how to read that stick.
They're gravity fed. So even though we only dip this side, since they're both connected, 30 gallons is what you have total. Both sides take 20 gallons. But you can read. This will tell you exactly how much fuel you have total.
So that's 30 total.
That means 15 per side, 15 each side.
And it should be easy. But people, I've seen it repeatedly happen, they get confused. They tell me that they've got full tanks when they've really only got.
And even sometimes I gotta think about.
It, it's very easy to screw up. You gotta think about it.
Since it's gravity fed, it'll feed over there. You can fill one side.
So the thing to remember is that the stick is showing you how many gallons total, not how many gallons in that tank. N.
