Rino Lacombe wrote:

Paul wrote:
Unfortunately fuel injection, mechanical or electronic, will never be as simple or
reliable as a gravity feed carburetor.

Paul Lamar

I agree with the "will never be as simple" but I think that our rotary fuel injection
systems should be as reliable -- if not we have a big problem on our hands.  I am
convinced that it can be designed properly.

We do not have carb icing -- that is one accident source
There are ways of telling when our fuel supply is running out. (and our electrical supply)

We have backup systems
I think that we can work on reducing the pilot's [workload?] as much as we 
can -- specially during a crisis -- to do the right [thing?] at the right time.

Rino

I think that last sentence is a bit garbled. You could expand on that?

Paul Lamar
 
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