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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 ... 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 ... 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 |
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