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is this a turbo charged engine also?
I have taken off with a DA of 8800 ft, full rich and not had a problem in my T-arrow I use full rich on take off and landing, as my POH says to do. Peter Duniho wrote: My airplane, with a Lycoming TIO-540, will do the same thing at high altitude airports if the mixture is set full-rich prior to touchdown. Operationally, I simply leave the mixture alone during descent. Given that descents are usually made at reduced power, theoretically I could even lean the mixture during the descent (opposite of what you'd normally do with a normally aspirated engine at power settings near cruise), but I just keep an eye on the turbine inlet temperature and normally no change in mixture setting is required to keep the TIT in the ballpark of 1500 F. During a go-around, it is critical that I remember to push the mixture full-rich, but since it is just as critical that the engine not stop until I am actually done flying the airplane, this is an acceptable trade-off. I also need to keep the mixture lean while taxiing, otherwise I get fouled plugs. I asked my mechanic about both issues (since they seem related) and he verified that the idle mixture is correct for my installation. It just runs rich at or near idle power unless the mixture is manually adjusted. At higher density altitudes, idle mixture is so rich it will flood the engine and make it stop. [...] Later that day, when taxiing for takoff, we set 1200 rpm and leaned for peak rpm, mixture knob was out 1.5-2 inches to achieve this. I assume you mean you just did this as a test during taxi, and that you returned the mixture to full rich before takeoff? When we returned home to 800' elevation, we checked the idle speed at full rich, it was about 500 rpm, is this too low? Sounds about right, but I don't know the specifics for that engine. It might be that it's supposed to be higher. I would ask the mechanic maintaining the aircraft if he has the engine manual for the engine installed, and then you can read in that what the actual numbers should be. Pete |
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