Thought I'd better warn fellow Europa owners of an incident that
occurred yesterday with G-MFHI.
A couple of weeks ago, we replaced the sort sections of 1 inch fuel
hose that clamp onto the fuel tank outlets. When pre flight checking
the aeroplane yesterday, I could smell fuel but couldnt see anything
untoward by the time the ground crew had come over to pull it out,
fuel was pouring from the underside of the aeroplane at the rate of
about 3 or 4 litres a minute!
Once drained, I checked the hoses and found that one had almost
completely failed and the other was well on the way. The hose had
swollen and delaminated. It had swollen so much that the hose clip had
completely cut its way through the outer wall of the hose.
We had operated the aeroplane on Mogas without incident with the same
make and type of hose for over 4 years so can only suspect a defective
batch of hose may have made its way into the supply chain.
Europa are looking into it but, thought Id better let fellow owners
know just in case anyone else has recently changed these hose sections.
Peter
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