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From: "Gary Casey" <glcasey@gte.net>
To: <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: cold starts
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 07:06:31 -0800
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>>If we reserved a plane for after hours pickup and failed to arrange
preheat
with the FBO before takeoff we would lose our membership and could be held
liable for engine damage resulting from our failure to preheat.  They,
apparently, thought it was VERY important and took the matter very
seriously.<<

I think they are getting carried away.  In a flying club with all kinds of
klutz's flying (I was responsible for the maintenance in one once so I know)
you can have all kinds of operational problems with cold starts.  They will
flood the engine and charge the club to clean the plugs, wash down the
cylinder walls, run the battery dead and go off and leave it to freeze, try
to jump start a 12-volt battery on 24 volts with the radios on, etc, etc,
etc.  So maybe they are trying to protect themselves against that.  A
private owner with half a brain in gear shouldn't have all those problems.

A lot of clubs get carried away - perhaps they are run by some of the same
"elitists" we hear about on other subjects.

Gary Casey

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