My experience last Friday confirms what Ed wrote below.  At a fuel  
stop on the way to Watsonville, CA, I filled the wing tanks to my  
usual 1-2" from the top (any more and it spills out the cap vent  
holes when taxiing or climbing out).  The flight to Watsonville from  
there took almost exactly 2 hrs., and I was pushing full throttle  
most of the way (due to concern about the marine layer of clouds and  
fog moving into Watsonville), which I don't usually do.  Before  
fueling up at Watsonville, I dip-sticked the wing tanks:  one barely  
wet the tip of the stick, and the other was at ~3 gal. mark (on a  
stick calibrated by another Ercouper who gifted it).  However, when I  
then fueled to the same 1-2" from the top, it only took 10.8 gal.   
That dihedral "hid" ~2 gal. per side.

BTW, do the wing tanks feed *all* their fuel out to the fuel pump,  
or, put another way, is some of that ~2 gal. per side  unusable fuel?

Linda
N3437H (Sky Sprite)
L.A.

Ed B wrote:

Due to the Coupe's strong dihedral, there's usually a fair amount of  
fuel still in the tanks when the float gauge gets to empty and even  
when a dipstick used vertically at the filler cap shows empty. 
  

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