Fuel management

[Biggles]

Just wondering if anyone has or seen some type of fuel flow meter installed on an aircraft, iether instantanious (l/h),cumulative (total L) or average l/h. Maybe someone in the automotive industry knows of products that could be used on a trike.

I think it would be quite useful for monitoring feul on long cross-countries.

Anyone know the cost and implications of installing something like that?

[Morph]

I have a fuel flow system installed in my plane. It's made locally in South Africa by MGL Avionics. It's brilliant. You can use it with or without a fuel level sensor. I have both the fuel level sensor and the fuel flow meter installed so it gives me
Total fuel available
current fuel flow
range in hours of remaining fuel.
Range in distance

If you don't have a fuel level sensor then you need to tell it how much fuel you have everytime you put fuel in. Works quite well this way. It then calculates remaining fuel based on usage.

It's the right square gauge. The left one the the 503 engine management gauge, with Dual EGT, Dual CHT, RPM and Hobbs meter



Visit their site at http://www.mglavionics.co.za/

The products fall under the Smart Singles and is the FF-1

[RV4ker (RIP)]

There are couple available. Standard in most of the bigger bliks. The certified versions are very expensive. Nirren may also have...

I have MGL Ultra which has built in fuel flow in KRII and it works well. Ranier at MGL also most helpfull...

[Biggles]

Cool... exactly what I need. The I suppose the holes are all stadard size so it should just slot into the same hole? Trying to look up how big my feul gauage is

[Biggles]

Morph, where is your feul flow sensor? Before or after the feul filter? I see they recomend placing the sensor between two filters to set up a smooth feul flow... and isolate it from pulse type flow from the vaccum pump.

[Morph]

I have the following

Tank, standby electric pump, fuel flow, filter, pulse pump, engine.

The standby electric pump is only for emergencies and thus doesn't normally run.

BTW Bush_Geo, MGL are local to CT, they are based in Somerset West

[Morph]

Cool... exactly what I need. The I suppose the holes are all stadard size so it should just slot into the same hole? Trying to look up how big my feul gauage is

The front bezel is square but the back will fit into a standard circular 2.25" hole.