On Saturday, I went to fly, and had some trouble getting it to
stay running due to the cold temperatures. I probably didn't keep it
rich enough, long enough. I taxied out to the far end of the runway
(5000'), and took the runway for take off.
As I accelerated to about 90
kts, I was just rotating when to power dropped substantially. I cut the
throttle, and aborted the takeoff.
Hi
Steve,
I recently reported
something similar, which I also have no explanation. I took off on the
coldest day I've flown (58), and at about 800 ft, my engine sagged
significantly. I instinctively turned to re-enter the pattern, and also
richened the mixture some, which seems to have restored normal rpm. I
had the mixture knob at it's normal takeoff position, but wondered if the cold
weather required more fuel than the EC-2 added on it's own. For the
record, I don't absolutely know that richening the mixture corrected it.
It could have just corrected itself and the mixture change was a
coincidence. I set the mixture just a bit richer now
:-)
Rusty