Rusty

 

 

Definitely not the norm but timing is everything.  The key factors in saving the engine in the event of coolant circulation loss is:

 

1.  Recognizing the event immediately and reducing power to the minimum needed to limp to landing   (Instrument w/ alarms helps a lot)

 

2.  Getting the engine on the ground and shut down before the remaining coolant boils away.    The overheat goes from "hot engine"  to "rebuild time"  very quickly after total coolant loss. 

 

The total elapsed time between overheat alarm to engine shutdown  was about 4-5 minutes in my case.  

 

Tracy