Another problem, especially with small engines, is that if you're ever going
to get carb ice, it's now, with the fire out and the engine turning. The
exhaust manifold cools really fast on a smaller engine; you're pulling air
and water through a cold carb throat, with insufficient latent heat to melt
the resulting ice; and you may not get a restart at all.

Seth

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
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As George says, you really have to work at it to make a prop stop. It will
windmill at glide speed, and the magnetos will spark their little hearts
out during every revolution until the fuel-air mixture returns to the
cylinders.

If you do stop the prop...on purpose, by sticking the nose way up in the
air...you will have to dive to about 120 to get it rotating again.

Bob Gardner

wrote in message
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I was just wondering if best glidespeed in say a cessna 152 will be fast
enough to
get the engine started if you encountered a battery failure or starter
failure.

shywon