On 23 Oct 2005 08:27:50 -0700, wrote:

Another trick to stick in your pilots bag of magic is to use the primer
knob if your engine gets starved for carb ice and stops.

Ah, but that's on the instrument panel, and I fly from the back seat!

(A time or two, I've not noticed until I'm in the air that the field
altitude wasn't set, and I've had to add/subtract a hundred feet to
TPA etc. One time I was heading off on a crosscountry, and I landed in
a private field so I could set it correctly, which entails getting out
of the harness so as to reach forward across the front seat.)



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