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On behalf of Expert Village my name is Rodney Fielitz. I'm a certified flight instructor
in Cottonwood, Arizona. I'm here to give you the basics on what it takes to become a pilot.
Today we're going to put some fuel in the airplane. It's 100 octane fuel, its colored
blue. We color the fuel so we know we're getting the right thing. We also have a jet A fuel
tank sitting right next to us and we do not want to put Jet A in here. So, Bob just hooked
the static line down to our airplane so we don't create any sparks. I'm going to put
this up here and I'm going to bring it up to the tab. The filler neck is 17 gallons
of fuel. If I fill it quarter to the top it's 24. I'm going to want to put 17 gallons on
the side. OK, I've got 17 gallons of fuel in there, that's a little over two hours of
flying time.