Engine failure

In article ,
"Jase Vanover" wrote:



Carb heat had been on since downwind. I was taught to put carb heat on as
part of my downwind checks every time, when doing manouvers at lower
throttle settings, and approximately every 15 minutes during cruise... which
I'm pretty faithful to. It is also standard part of my runup (both at 1700
RPM and at idle).

This was my third circuit. Carb heat was applied during downwind for all
three of them.

You make a good point that when I did my shutdown after restarting, I didn't
have carb heat on, so the engine not quiting and showing 800-900 could be
because carb heat wasn't on... though it didn't quit on my first two
landings either.


Carb ice is funny sometimes. Was doing a bunch of T&Gs in a 152. As
you, Carb Heat on downwind, push it off after pushing the throttle in on
takeoff. On my 7th or 8th "GO" the engine lost power and ran rough at
about 300' and quit as I made a right 270 back to the intersecting
runway. Made the runway, got a restart after a few moments, it ran real
rough for a bit then smoothed out. Shop checked it and found nothing
wrong, we assume it was carb ice.

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