Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
On the CRJ 700 you have to shut both fuel boost pumps during single engine taxi, or you get a large fuel imbalance.
We SE taxi with the operating engine boost pump on. Never had an issue.
+1...the only time those go off from gate to gate is the check valve test on first flight of day or if an abnormal checklist calls for it, otherwise they are on, or selected on I should say, as they are not actually on all the time. I will say however that the gravity xflow is about the biggest pain in the @$$ on that airplane.