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I was up the flying field on Saturday afternoon, I did all my checks went to fuel up and the leccy pump wouldn't move the fuel and sounded kind of slow. I thought "that's odd perhaps the battery is low" so connected my starter. Nope, battery fine. So I borrowed a hand pump and fueled up. Came back in and used another brand-new "loan" pump. I turned the handle slow, then fast, then backwards, then slow n fast again, nothing, wouldn't even pull fuel up the pipe. So I borrowed the original loaner again and this time the handle got stuck! I gave it to someone else and after a slight hesitation and a bit of stiffness on the crank he got it going again.
That's 3 pumps that I had problems with in the space of half an hour.
When I got home I tried my leccy pump again and it worked fine, no hesitation and fuel pumped through without a problem.
So am I a Jonah when it comes to fuel pumps, was my location too close to the Bermuda Triangle, or did the fuel in the pump/lines go too thick for some reason?
Can heli fuel go thick in cold weather?
I'm confused.
That's 3 pumps that I had problems with in the space of half an hour.
When I got home I tried my leccy pump again and it worked fine, no hesitation and fuel pumped through without a problem.
So am I a Jonah when it comes to fuel pumps, was my location too close to the Bermuda Triangle, or did the fuel in the pump/lines go too thick for some reason?
Can heli fuel go thick in cold weather?
I'm confused.
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