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Old January 13th 04, 01:43 AM
David Rind
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Rick Durden wrote:
David,

I believe your POH does call for full rich prior to landing (but not
in the descent) in preparation for a possible go around. Otherwise,
there is no reason to enrichen it.

At very high altitude airports, landing with full rich mixture may
cause a rough idle or the engine may actually quit at the end of
rollout, but that depends on the idle mixture adjustment on your
engine.

If your engine runs fine at full rich at low power settings on the
ground, then there is no problem with going to full rich on final in
preparation for a go around. However, you may want to lean it while
taxiing (lean it a long ways so that it will simply quit should you
try to take off prior to going to full rich and it will remind you) so
as to help avoid plug fouling.

All the best,
Rick


Thanks! So then if I think I'm capable of remembering to push
in the mixture on a go around there is really no need to enrich
the mixture prior to landing. FWIW, I'm good about aggressively
leaning once I'm off the runway.

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David Rind