Fuel System - BMS F-16C/D 4.34 Flight Manual

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DISCLAIMER: This chapter refers only to the single seat F-16 Block 50 / Block 52 in BMS.
Block 52+ with their conformal fuel tanks and F16D two seat variants of the block 50 & 52 are
not documented in this manual but are now coded correctly in BMS.
The F-16 block 50 and block 52 in BMS are able to carry 7162 lbs of JP5/8 fuel internally.
The amount of fuel carried externally differs from one variant to another.
Wing tanks can be 370 gallon or 600 gallon but the latter are hardly used. We will work on the
assumption that the normal external fuel load consists of two 370 gallon wing tanks (capacity 2516 lbs
each) and one 300 gallon centreline tank (capacity 2040 lbs).
In this scenario the maximum load of external fuel is 7072 lbs.
The maximum fuel load is thus 7162 + 7072 = 14134 lbs.
The internal fuel system is made of 6 tanks:
Left wing tank with a capacity of 550 ± 100 lbs.
Aft fuselage tank + Aft reservoir fuselage tank with a capacity of 2810 ± 100 lbs.
Forward fuselage tank + Forward reservoir fuselage tank with a capacity of 3250 ± 100 lbs.
(Forward fuselage tank 1 & forward fuselage tank 2 are combined in BMS to forward fuselage tank).
Right wing tank with a capacity of 550 ± 100 lbs.
The total fuel system is divided in two parts:
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AFT & LEFT tanks (A/L) in red in the following image
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FORWARD & RIGHT tanks (F/R) green on the image
That is why you find two different needles on the fuel quantity gauge on the
right aux console. One for the A/L fuel system, the second for the F/R fuel
system.
We will cover this gauge at a later stage.
Please note, the centreline external tank is part of both systems as it transfers into both F/R and A/L
systems.
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