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From: "jbker@juno.com" <jbker@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:49:56 GMT
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Subject: Bernie Update, Good news& bad, empty weight and injectors
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The good news. My total empty weight (including approximately 1 gal of gas plus oil and coolant) is the same as Van’s sample weight and balance number. I believe that is the number of their 9A with a 160 HP lyc.  If that is the case then my weight is exceptionally good  because the factory works hard to keep their weight to a minimum. The painted weight is 1072 and the CG is less than a Ľ inch aft of the sample.  With 60 gal of gas and my 155 lbs fanny, the cg is still not too forward and I would probably always have some luggage if I’m loaded with fuel to push it aft to a better location.

The bad news is that the run today still ran on one rotor for approximately 1.5 minutes. It is rough! When rotor 1 did fire up, I had to shut the secondary switch off to keep it running. This means that the injectors are running way too rich and it appears that rotor 1’s primary is probably the culprit. Will pull the injectors tomorrow and see if I can determine anything, May just buy a new one and stick in that hole. The airplane is getting a real shake test when it is running on one rotor. Would be scary trying to stretch a glide by keeping one running! Don’t think I will wait next time if it is only running on one rotor. 

Bernie