Narrative:

About 5 miles out from landing; the engine quit! My mfd showed 30 gallons left; and I changed tanks each 30 minutes; comparing the fuel gauge to the mfd fuel (although in the cirrus you can only really estimate from the fuel gauge as they move a lot inflight). The left tank was empty; and the right tank showed about 5 gallons. While that surprised me; as I always like 1.5 - 2 hours remaining on landing; it appeared that would get me to the airport; and since I was over a large lake; I didn't have many options anyway. I was cleared for a left base entry to ZZZ and at about the point where you would normally turn downwind to base; the right tank went dry. I notified the tower; went straight for the numbers; landed; and left enough momentum to roll off the active onto the taxiway. Was able to restart a couple of times while taxing to get where I could call a fuel truck and not block any airport operations. Flight planning expected 30 gallons of fuel remaining; and the mfd in fact showed 29.2 remaining. The fuel 'idiot' light was on; but I never noticed it until after I was on the ground! (Bright day; sunglasses on. I don't know; but it never got my attention inflight.) it wasn't until later that evening in trying to figure it out that a flashback hit me -- I had told the desk at ZZZ1 (start of that leg) to put in 15 a side; for 30 total; when I meant 30 a side. When I got in the plane; I added 60 gallons to the mfd; but had only put 30 in the plane! Stupid; in my 33 years of flying I could never understand how anyone could run a plane out of fuel! I am now adding the idiot light check with a positive hit of the check switch at each 30 minute tank change. That light comes on with about 20 gallons left which means it must have been on for about 1 hour and I never saw it.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Pilot mismanagement of fuel added function of the Cirrus SR22 MFD resulted in fuel starvation; fortunately near an airport where a safe landing was made.

Narrative: About 5 miles out from landing; the engine quit! My MFD showed 30 gallons left; and I changed tanks each 30 minutes; comparing the fuel gauge to the MFD fuel (although in the Cirrus you can only really estimate from the fuel gauge as they move a lot inflight). The left tank was empty; and the right tank showed about 5 gallons. While that surprised me; as I always like 1.5 - 2 hours remaining on landing; it appeared that would get me to the airport; and since I was over a large lake; I didn't have many options anyway. I was cleared for a left base entry to ZZZ and at about the point where you would normally turn downwind to base; the right tank went dry. I notified the Tower; went straight for the numbers; landed; and left enough momentum to roll off the active onto the taxiway. Was able to restart a couple of times while taxing to get where I could call a fuel truck and not block any airport operations. Flight planning expected 30 gallons of fuel remaining; and the MFD in fact showed 29.2 remaining. The fuel 'idiot' light was on; but I never noticed it until after I was on the ground! (Bright day; sunglasses on. I don't know; but it never got my attention inflight.) It wasn't until later that evening in trying to figure it out that a flashback hit me -- I had told the desk at ZZZ1 (start of that leg) to put in 15 a side; for 30 total; when I meant 30 a side. When I got in the plane; I added 60 gallons to the MFD; but had only put 30 in the plane! Stupid; in my 33 years of flying I could never understand how anyone could run a plane out of fuel! I am now adding the idiot light check with a positive hit of the check switch at each 30 minute tank change. That light comes on with about 20 gallons left which means it must have been on for about 1 hour and I never saw it.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.