PA28R-200 Fuel Stick
All, good morning! Hope everyone is doing well following the last few days of snow on the East Coast!
I have a 1977 Arrow with the 72 gallon fuel tanks and I am searching for a visual fuel stick but have had no luck. I found a universal visual fuel gauge on Aircraft Spruce which requires the pilot to fuel the tanks five gallons at a time and record the levels on a log, and I think that would work, but I'm wondering if anyone here with the 72 gallon tanks hasn't already done this and might be wiling to share their findings with the group? Or, ideally, if anyone has a source for an actual 72 gallon fuel stick, that would be perfect. Thanks so much.
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Dante
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I can't find anything either. I have a stick from my Arrow 1 that I use sometimes. From my experience, fuel at the bottom of the stick is ~10 gallons indicated on panel fuel gauge and the top then would be 36. You would only be able to stick measure 10-36 with a questionable level of accuracy. I was going to try to calibrate it adding marks at the bottom of the stick indicating ~10 gallons, tabs 27.5 and top 36 but I don't think it will be all that accurate.
POH indicates 25 gallons usable at the tabs.
Best way to create a measuring stick would be to drain a tank completely and add fuel till it reaches the fuel neck at the bottom of the tank. That would be the unmeasurable fuel. Add one or two gallons at a time and mark that on the stick till you get to the top. Maybe someday I'll get around to doing this.
Good luck!