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Summary: Learn how to fuel a plane to fly in this free aviation video.
Rodney Fielitz has been a certified flight instructor for 30 years. He also pilots drop planes for parachuting. He has been flying since 1973. Contact him at 928-300-3858.read more
"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Rodney Fielitz. I'm a certified flight instructor in Cottonwood, Arizona. I'm here to give you the basics on what it takes to become a pilot. Today we're going to put some fuel in the airplane. It's 100 octane fuel, its colored blue. We color the fuel so we know we're getting the right thing. We also have a jet A fuel tank sitting right next to us and we do not want to put Jet A in here. So, Bob just hooked the static line down to our airplane so we don't create any sparks. I'm going to put this up here and I'm going to bring it up to the tab. The filler neck is 17 gallons of fuel. If I fill it quarter to the top it's 24. I'm going to want to put 17 gallons on the side. OK, I've got 17 gallons of fuel in there, that's a little over two hours of flying time."
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