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an interesting in flight experiment
On Oct 18, 12:02*pm, Frank Stutzman wrote:
a wrote: In my case the engine ran a bit rougher -- rpms stayed where they were set, of course, because prop pitch changed to accommodate the reduction in power. And if you were flying a 6 cylinder (or larger) engine, you may not have even noticed the roughness. * (I once failed to get the switch back to "both" after a run-up. *Managed to take-off and fly for ~15 minutes before I noticed it. *The roughness became more pronounced when I started leaning it out). -- Frank Stutzman Bonanza N494B * * "Hula Girl" Boise, ID The IO 360 has 4 cylinders -- the roughness was not really bad, and you could be right -- with 6 may not have been noticeable. My hand stays on the mag switch throughout a mag check so I want to believe I won't forget to go back to both -- help us avoid making your mistake: do you remember what distracted you enough to leave it pointing to a single bank of plugs? |
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