A short demonstration (transcript) of how to check fuel quantity on an Enstrom F28F helicopter using a dipstick. Chris Hauser demonstrates dipping the fuel-side of the stick into a tank, aligning to the tank top line, and reading the quantity. He emphasizes performing this check before every flight and explains that the helicopter's tanks are gravity-fed so dipping one side indicates total fuel.
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 got to 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 going to 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 simp. Take your stick, you're going to dip the tanks. It's 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 dipped 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 13 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 got to think.
About it, it's very easy to screw up. You got to think about since it's.
Gravity fed, it'll feed over there. You can fill one side and it'll feed over to the other side.
So the thing to remember is that the stick is showing you how many gallons total, not how many gallons in that tank.
