Running runup?

"Henry and Debbie McFarland" wrote in message
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Do you do 'running' run-ups?

Yes. If you attend any of the major fly-ins your run-up will be a rolling
one.

Deb
--
1946 Luscombe 8A (His)
1948 Luscombe 8E (Hers)
1954 Cessna 195B, restoring (Ours)
Jasper, Ga. (JZP)

You can add skis and floats to the list that require run-ups on the move.

Do you do 'running' run-ups?


I do NOT check prop and mags on my Mooney while running, because I want to
control my taxi speed w/o riding the brakes.

I've been known to do VOR checks and the like while taxiing, but unless your
checklist has items in a suitable order (hey, at 3000 hours, nearly all in the
same airplane, I still use a checklist) it's easier to overlook something if
you do a running run-up. Also, your head is inside the cockpit for those hmmm,
15 oor 20 seconds.

As for that guy who flys a seaplane? There's something even stanger about guys
who land on water than those of us who with our tail backwards (M20J).

Yes. If you attend any of the major fly-ins your run-up will be a rolling
one.

Amen.

If you stop to do a "proper" run-up right before departing OSH (or SNF),
you'll have four FAA guys in pink shirts absolutely apoplectic, jumping up
and down and waving flags at you! "Rolling" run-ups are sometimes your only
option.

Many times the traffic gets backed up considerably, however, and you can
kinda cock the plane to the side, and do a "real" run-up. Of course, then
you get into the discussion of WHEN to do your run-up.

If you do a run-up in line, and it's five or ten (or 20?) minutes till you
depart, you've lost much of the utility of doing a run-up. Isn't the idea
to do the run-up as close to departure as possible, to ensure that the
engine and prop are functioning properly at take-off?

It's probably my own paranoia, but I try to do my run-up right before
fire-walling the throttle so that nothing else has a chance to break in the
meantime.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"G. Burkhart" wrote:

Do you do 'running' run-ups?

No.

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

On 29 Jun 2004 12:44:09 GMT, emove (AJW) wrote:

As for that guy who flys a seaplane? There's something even stanger about guys
who land on water than those of us who with our tail backwards (M20J).

And what makes you think the M20E or M20J has a tail on backwards? Don't
you know it's all those others that have it wrong :-))


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)

In article lk6Ec.1801$AI.68@attbi_s04,
"G. Burkhart" wrote:


Do you do 'running' run-ups?

Always. I fly from a turf field....stationary runup is bad for the
prop. Once rolling I come up to 1700 for the mag check, then back to
idle to control speed.....up to 2000 for a quick prop check. Being on
grass the speed doesn't become a big issue...no need to hold brakes
during the checks.

--
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

As for that guy who flys a seaplane? There's something even stanger about
guys
who land on water than those of us who with our tail backwards (M20J).

And what makes you think the M20E or M20J has a tail on backwards? Don't
you know it's all those others that have it wrong :-))
Let's justy say those of us who drive Mooneys like our tail a little
differently than some others.

Do you do 'running' run-ups?

Always. I fly from a turf field....stationary runup is bad for the
prop. Once rolling I come up to 1700 for the mag check, then back to
idle to control speed.....up to 2000 for a quick prop check. Being on
grass the speed doesn't become a big issue...no need to hold brakes
during the checks.

--
Dale L. Falk

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

You do mean, don't you, referring to your sign off, subject to the limitation
"sith your clothes on"?

In article ,
emove (AJW) wrote:



You do mean, don't you, referring to your sign off, subject to the limitation
"sith your clothes on"?

No. g

--
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

Henry and Debbie McFarland wrote:

Do you do 'running' run-ups?

Yes. If you attend any of the major fly-ins your run-up will be a rolling
one.

I just checked out in a new (to me) club airplane. At some point, I was
taxiing and the CFI suggested I do something. I don't recall what it was,
but it wasn't one of the items that *must* be done while moving (ie.
checking for proper function of the AI, HI, and TC).

I reminded him that, if I did as he suggested with a certain other CFI in
the club for a checkout, I'd fail.

So I guess the right answer is "it depends".

- Andrew