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Does anyone have any experience with them? I’m thinking about getting one since they are only around 120.00 and I wanted to know if they really help you increase your economy or are they just a novelty? Lemme know....

brains646 - 05 February 2009 03:29 PM

Does anyone have any experience with them? I’m thinking about getting one since they are only around 120.00 and I wanted to know if they really help you increase your economy or are they just a novelty? Lemme know....

I do have them but have not used them enough to know if there is a benefit to them yet, will get back to you when have enough information.

Salt - 15 July 2009 07:42 AM

I think the biggest benifit to having them is knowing exactly how much fuel you have on board.. The digital readout on mine tells me exactly how much gas I burn between fill ups and I never have to worry about running dry as long as I don’t stray too far from a gas dock. 

Ok

hi,
I’d make a point to talk to the mechanic and see what they found. I’ve never flown a 182 with an IO-480, but with a fluctuation like that I would probably have to suspect something to do with the fuel pressure sending unit or perhaps, more serious, a fuel pump. Could it be a faulty gauge? Sure, but like Ralpha’s tachometer, faulty gauges “constantly swing back and forth”. From my experience, they continue their erratic indications. I have now told you everything I know about this kind of thing. I’m sure that there must be some experienced light aircraft mechanics on this forum.

I have the navman unit hook up to my navman gps. I have never calibrated it and find it to be within 5%. Easy to set up but you need to make sure the flowmeter is set up vertically and after the filter. Had a small pocket of air in my filter once and that caused a flowraate problem until I released what it was and was easily fixed. Certainly more acurate than a gauge.
cheers
blaze
ps
not sure how they go when the outboard has fuel return system but I believe its only a diffenert flowmeter unit