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From: "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Yet another non-event story
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:46:24 -0500
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Nice flight, Buly,

My A/F indicator is off the scale lean for most of my cruise flight regime. 
So I wouldn't be overly concerned about that unless you were flying with a 
turbocharger.  Doesn't not necessarily mean you need to richen the mixture 
unless you want more fuel-burn and power of course.

Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bulent Aliev" <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:37 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Yet another non-event story


> After having bad weather and high winds for few weeks, today the  weather 
> was turning perfect for another flight. So I punched out  early from work 
> and went to get the plane ready. By the time I was  all done, my minister 
> of finance, safety & communications officer  arrived from work. She 
> mounted up and I tried to lift the nose of the  plane from grazing 
> position with the electric nose lift. No go?  Started checking the 
> electric connections and one of the micro  switches fell apart in my hand. 
> Anyway I fixed that and left the gear  down. Taxied to the runup area and 
> made the usual run-up checks.  Waited forever behind couple of jets to 
> come and go, than was my  turn. Full power and we were rolling. On climb 
> out the temps went to  210F, but dropped on downwind very fast to 170-190. 
> Made couple of  wide circles over the airport at 1500 ft but it was 
> already getting  dark, and she requested permission to join the pattern 
> and land.  Snuck in front of a jet on long final and did a beautiful 
> landing. I  let it roll almost to the end of the 6K ft runway and made the 
> jet go  around behind me. Payback is a bitch :).
> By the time we taxied back to the hangar it was dark. This time we  had 
> few extra moments to enjoy the plane with the sunset on one side  and the 
> Atlantic on the other. that's what she told me. My eyeballs  were stuck to 
> the panel and EC2.
> During the flight I noticed my mixture bar was going from lean to  totally 
> desapearing. Turning the knob to full rich was not enough. So  I have to 
> do some more tuning.
> Bulent "Buly" Aliev
> FXE Ft lauderdale, FL
>  http://tinyurl.com/dcy36
>
>
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