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From: Bulent Aliev <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Yet another non-event story
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:18:35 -0500
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

Thanks Ed. You are right. When I came back the tail pipe was much  
darker than the previous flight, indicating reacher mixture? I'll  
have to nail down all these variables one day :)
Buly

On Dec 29, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Ed Anderson wrote:

> 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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