Yeah, you would have laughed at me jumping in and out of the plane. After
each try, I pulled the prop through by hand until I heard the bendix kick
out, then jumped back in and re-engaged the starter. Most of the time I
could hear it re-engage before it turned by listening out the pilot's vent
window.
Jim

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On 11-Jan-2005, "Jim Burns" wrote:

I bumped the starter on the left engine about 5-6 times and it engaged
every time.
So I guess we'll just wait and see what happens next.


If you didn't actually start the engine, then the starter most likely
remained engaged between "attempts". It is the ring gear "driving" the
starter gear after the engine starts that causes the Bendix drive to
retract.

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-Elliott Drucker