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Old January 12th 05, 10:32 PM
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Jim Burns wrote:
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


That sounds odd. In normal operation, your prop has to be turning at
a pretty fair rate in order to disengage the bendix. I've never been
able to do this by hand turning a prop. Are you sure it wasn't just
the impulse coupler you were hearing when you hand turned the prop?
John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)