Antares 18S Maiden Flight

I don't believe that there is anything wrong or suspect
with two stroke engines. You do have to be careful
with them, here are the things that I've learned from
motorbikes and glider turbos

Use the best sparkplugs you can get to avoid two stroke
whiskering, try platinum or exotic equivalent

Take care of your plugs

Do a DI of your engine before flight, are all the bits
there, eg, the HT leads are ON

Take scrupulous care with your fuel/2 stroke mixing

Prime your engine before takeoff

Start your engine before starting task, 2nd starts
are always much quicker for some reason

Remember the sequence fuel on, erect, ignition, TE
change over, push prime, pull decomp speed up and release.

Sounds dificult but it isn't with practice - this on
a Ventus c so its a bit old tech compared to ASW 28
and ASG 29s or DG1000s.

After a couple of months layoff the engine is much
slower to start and needs determined effort to get
it going. I presume that it needs to blow oil out of
the crankcase and cylinders.

John