What methods are you guys using to fuel your plane?

So far plastic gas can pouring directly.
Used a 12 volt pump , but just lasted one fill.

I fill a five gallon plastic can or two and continue to the airport.

Unload the airplane and spread the wings. I have a wooden box to set the plastic cans in the plastic bed on my pickup. The box is the right height sitting on it's open top for me to stand on the bottom and fill the nose tank. On end it is tall enough to fill the wing tank. Always use a Mr. Funnel.

Start the preflight. By the time I get around to the sump it has been about 5 or 10 minutes sense fueling. Sump the gascolator...Lowest point in the system, Put a couple drops of food coloring in the fuel tester to check for moonshine even though the service station pump is labeled "No moonshine".

I tried filling the plane directly from the pump at the station once but that didn't work too well with the plane being up on the trailer and my Mr. Funnel policy and all.

Just mailed my 337 to Oklahoma! Will be mostly using marine MoGas, when "Amphibing". The boaters "put their foot down" (long ago) and all marinas I have seen offer MoGas, ethanol free.

Exciting when I get a chance to try a little MoGas in the future. I have only empty jugs in the float lockers right now. Basic grunt work.

I was thinking of buying one of this

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/p ... key=381523

Or this

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/p ... key=381523

No idea how well will they work and seem expensive for what it is.

Whatever works, my 300 gallon home bulk tank, taxiing up to the pump, to borrowing/stealing a car, to using the bike. What ever gets me on my way.

I have a 500 gallon on a stand. Gravity fed through a water catching filter. Pull the plane up and in the hose goes. The jerry cans work alright too, but I prefer to just fill out of the big tank.

35 gal at a time. The bottom of the barrel sits in the stand at the same height as the bed of my pickup. The pump is grounded to the stand. The airplane is grounded to the stand. The stand drags a chain on the ground.

Loving the sub $2/gal fuel. I have a 35 gallon truck transfer tank and 12vdc transfer pump with water detection filter. Fill up on my way to the airport. Don't skimp on the grounding... get a ground reel and ground before fueling.

5 gallon metal can bonded to the airframe.

Push the airplane out of the hangar, set the can on a foam mat on top of the wing and use a jiggle pump siphon.

55 Gal plastic barrel to 5 gal metal cans (Someone once told me they were less likely to cause static than plastic - any opinions?) then siphoned into tanks. So far so good. Just got a hand pump from a logger friend, but I need to clean the diesel fuel out before we use it.

Right now I have to move the pump between barrels which is a pain. I need to come up with a better method.

5 gallon plastic cans. Hoist atop the wing, stick my thumb over the spout, stick the spout in the tank, let thumb go. Been doing it that way for nigh onto 20 years now. Thought about getting a barrel or tank and a pump (electric or mechanical), but if it's not broke don't fix it.

Ground plane. Remove gas cap. Pour it in.



tim

"Right now I have to move the pump between barrels which is a pain. I need to come up with a better method. "

2" male camlock fitting on each drum 2", female camlock fitting on the pump makes it real easy, quick disconnect on the hose and pump makes it all real easy to handle too.

I have a tank in back of the truck with 12 volt pump has worked great with no problems for last 7 years. If I am away for home then jiggle hose with 5 gal cans on wing.
DENNY

For you guys that taxi up to the automobile pumps: What do you bond the aircraft with? Do you carry a bonding wire with you?

Zzz wrote:For you guys that taxi up to the automobile pumps: What do you bond the aircraft with? Do you carry a bonding wire with you?

If I did that, I'd certainly carry a bonding wire. I self-serve most of my fill-ups, and I'm always careful to bond the airplane to the pumps, but virtually all aviation pumps have a retractable ground wire. As they say, half a boom will spoil your whole day.

The problem is that although the hose is supposed to have bonding wires built in, we're not as likely to hold the spout against the fill port like one does with a car, to avoid damaging the port. I suppose you could get away with a relatively short wire with clips on each end, and just clip the gas station pump's spout to the airframe.

Cary

Z. Real hose made for pumping gas is bonded hose. That is why we don't use ground wire on cars.