Engine stoppage during idle

There's two reasons not to go to full rich for landing. For me the most
important is density altitude. I live at 3650 msl and see lots of
flatlanders land full rich on a 90 degree day and have the engine quit
on rollout. Running full rich in these situations is just ****ing power
away when you need it. The second reason is fouling the plugs.



Dave Butler wrote:
Peter wrote:

"Denny" wrote


Well Peter, I don't know who is telling you to configure the engine
that way for landing but you may want to poll the big bore drivers on
here... I can tell you from experience with injected 360-520-540-720,
that many a hot engine will quit if used like that...
Personally, I leave the engine partially leaned in the landing
pattern...



I can see it both ways.
In the UK, the SOP is to go max-rpm and full-rich on short final, in
anticipation of a go-around.


That's SOP in the US, too. I've never heard of what Denny and Newps are
suggesting, but then I don't fly a big-bore, and don't keep up with
their SOPs.

"Newps" wrote in message
...
There's two reasons not to go to full rich for landing. For me the most
important is density altitude. I live at 3650 msl and see lots of
flatlanders land full rich on a 90 degree day and have the engine quit on
rollout. Running full rich in these situations is just ****ing power away
when you need it. The second reason is fouling the plugs.

Quite!
http://www.avweb.com/news/pelican/182085-1.html (last couple, three
paragraphs)


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO (MTJ)

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:20:17 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:


"Newps" wrote in message
...
There's two reasons not to go to full rich for landing. For me the most
important is density altitude. I live at 3650 msl and see lots of
flatlanders land full rich on a 90 degree day and have the engine quit on
rollout. Running full rich in these situations is just ****ing power away
when you need it. The second reason is fouling the plugs.

Quite!
http://www.avweb.com/news/pelican/182085-1.html (last couple, three
paragraphs)

I'm learning to hate sites like this. I'm logged in via another route,
but it's not smart enough to know that when I follow this link.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com