All the fine stuff just flows through your fuel pump filter (125 micron) and accumulates in the finger filter 75 micron) or possibly in the spider filter until they totally clog up. ? the first time, rust the second time, now fine dust) your plane goes down. IF you get a load of crap in your fuel (for me…. There is a third one in the spider which again is 75 microns with about 3/4″ sq inch of filter area. The fuel servo finger filter is 75 micron has about ONE square inch of filter area. The filter supplied with their fuel pump is 125 micron (protects the pump). which is a major single point of failure on most canard AFP installations.īasically, AFP/bendix has 3 filters inline to protect itself. Once again as before, I had a problem with this FINGER FILTER. Luckily, one of the flight instructors flew me back to my airport to get my tools and a spare finger filter to fix the the bird and after a short 30 min installation life is good again. The plane flew fine on the way over and developed the problem with no warning at all. (see )įortunately I had only flown from my airport (JZI) to Mt Pleasant Airport (LRO) which was just a short 10 minute flight. The second time it happened, the tower had to divert an airliner which resulted in a lengthy conversation with an FAA investigator. The engine started to backfire and sputter which necessitated an emergency go-around and landing.
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In all cases, immediately after taking off the engine would not develop full power. The strange thing is I flew for thousands of hours with no fuel problems at all and now with in the last year I have had 3 fuel related emergencies.
Well, today I experienced my 3 inflight emergency in the last ONE year due to the same issue, a clogged AirFlow Performance finger filter (located on the fuel servo inlet).
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