I recently purchased the A2A spitfire, and rushed into the air with it. However after a couple of hours I ran out of fuel.

There must be perhaps some mechanical reasoning behind it, but why does the fuel gauge require a button push to show the fuel level. Otherwise it always shows empty?

 

Why would a pilot not just tape the button into the depressed position? Done a search around Google but not found an answer yet.

Thanks to anyone who can enlighten/ educate me.

;-)

 

Cheers

Steve

Hi Steve, post this also in the A2A forums, surely Dudley will answer it with great detail

The endurance of the early Spitfire was less than 2 hours!

Thank you , posted on A2A forum too

While I haven't got a clue as to why it was built this way I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it was done to protect the instrument from damage while the needle bounces around while fuel sloshes around in the tanks. I've never flown in a warbird but the older fuel gauges in aircraft tend to oscillate rapidly.