Florida in 6.3 hours!

Jay Honeck wrote:

/snip/
Of course, due to inclement weather and a minor mechanical problem that
caused my first-ever emergency landing (which turned out to be fouled plugs,
thanks to running that awful 100 LL through Atlas' veins -- GOD I hate that
crap)/snip/

Jay,

you do seem to have a bit *too* much trouble with 100LL. There are lots
of these engines running around on Avgas without near as much
difficulty. I'm wondering what spark plugs you are running? Can you
check, and let us know?

Happy Flying!
Scott Skylane

you do seem to have a bit *too* much trouble with 100LL. There are lots
of these engines running around on Avgas without near as much difficulty.
I'm wondering what spark plugs you are running? Can you check, and let us
know?

Yeah, I'm wondering about that. I know this time was probably due to the
extended period of idling, awaiting my clearance to depart -- but, shoot, I
had it leaned back pretty good. Or so I thought.

I may need a hotter running plug. Any suggestions?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article JNM%d.9117$fn3.7400@attbi_s01,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:



Yeah, I'm wondering about that. I know this time was probably due to the
extended period of idling, awaiting my clearance to depart -- but, shoot, I
had it leaned back pretty good. Or so I thought.

I've been wondering about the 100LL "problems" also. I never had any
problems with the O-470 in my 182, and we don't have any problems with
the IO-520s in the 206s. Now the 206s are used in a skydive op so it's
climbpower for most of the time they're running, with low power during
the descent. My 182 I used 2300/22inches for cruise...leaned on the
ground but not to extreme. In just over 800 hours I only had a fouled
plug twice that I can remember.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

Jay Honeck wrote:
you do seem to have a bit *too* much trouble with 100LL. There are lots
of these engines running around on Avgas without near as much difficulty.
I'm wondering what spark plugs you are running? Can you check, and let us
know?


Yeah, I'm wondering about that. I know this time was probably due to the
extended period of idling, awaiting my clearance to depart -- but, shoot, I
had it leaned back pretty good. Or so I thought.

I may need a hotter running plug. Any suggestions?

If you constantly have problems with 100LL then the problem is you or
your engine. I run mostly mogas but literally I cannot tell when 100LL
is in the tanks. It runs exactly the same in all seasons on any mixture
of mogas/100LL. I have never had a fouled plug and I don't lean
carefully on the ground, sometimes I pull the mixture out sometimes I
don't. Makes no difference. And here in the summer the DA usually gets
to 7000. If you have all these problems then you've got a problem not
related to the type of fuel.