In rec.aviation.owning nrp wrote:
: At that time, we consulted the service manual, which
: states 8-2.

: Maybe that's from the Piper legal dept to discourage hand
: propping.........!

Possibly, but that part of the book has been there forever. The trouble with
the 8-2 position (from the front) was that is was unobtainable IIRC. It was a nice,
clean 30 degrees off in either direction. Doesn't exactly give one a warm fuzzy when
the official service instructions are impossible to follow.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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