Bush-pilot

Did a bit of web snooping for you and found a website that sells them in South Africa. cometaviation.co.za Phone 011 8250048 (Germiston). ZAR 105 (about us$9.00) so quite a mark up but hey, they deliver. They also stock Mr Funnel.

Looks like a Hengst H102WK, at a fair price (in the UK) BUT then there is the dreaded delivery cost - is there no Hengst Filter supplier in South Africa ? If there is, you should be able to get them at much the same cost or less (without added delivery).

Try 'Flylight' in UK they have these for 3.32 pound. Link - Fuel System I get bits to Australia very fast and easy to deal with.Cheers

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Have used one of these types or larger glass ones[ATTACH=full]54387[/ATTACH] for many many years as last filter to engine and have found them brilliant. As you are flying a lot of hours per month bush flying? Fuel can be a bit of a problem. It shows up any water in the system that wing draining misses and visual of the fuel as well. Easy to remove and clean. Saved a lot of problems over the years.

This is the type of fuel filter recommended in the U.K. It’s a plastic gauze that doesn’t clog up in the same way as paper ones and you can see if there is any slime on it or sediment in it. I don’t know where you can get them in South Africa though I have read somewhere that there is one available and recommended in S.A. that is made by Mercedes. Personally I wouldn’t want one you can’t see the actual filter gauze on daily inspection. I also wouldn’t want to change it out every 25 hours especially if I were flying the 80 hours per month your flying. That’s a new filter almost every week. If you’ve got someone coming from the U.K. you could get a bunch of these from skydrive.co.uk. That’s what I do (to Kenya).

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Maybe the key is to change regularly. Every 25 hours makes sense.

Good day all, I recently had an incident which resulted in an engine out on a Rotax 912. The cause was a possible blockage on one of the in-line filters feeding the left-hand carb.

Can anyone give me good advice on good quality gauze type filters to use? Seems the local AMO used the normal automotive type plastic filter (paper elements) which might have proved to be faulty. I fly an average of 80 hours per month and need the most reliable filter system available. Fuel is filtered through a Racor system when re-fueling. Look forward to hearing from you folks.

Hi everyone, good to be on here. I have a fleet of Savannah aircraft that we use in conservation and counter-poaching operations. Looking forward to engaging with you all.