Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:11:25 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-m27.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.8] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2) with ESMTP id 354711 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:53:31 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.12.137.8; envelope-from=Sky2high@aol.com Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-m27.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.4.) id q.24.5cfe0dc2 (4320) for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:52:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <24.5cfe0dc2.2e450358@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:52:56 EDT Subject: Re: [LML] oil X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1091807576" X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5000 -------------------------------1091807576 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/6/2004 9:31:43 AM Central Standard Time, Rob.Logan@Philips.com writes: note to self: the prop requires oil pressure to work.. another note to self: if the oil preshure is changing, find the closest airport. Rob, With my Hartzell hydraulic compact constant speed prop, the default (no oil pressure) position is flat pitch (take-off position). Everyone should move their prop control forward - flat pitch - while on approach to landing and note the increased drag from the propeller created disc. It is interesting to know and sometimes useful to take a bit of speed out of the approach without changing the aircraft's pitch. What about those electric props? What about a total electric failure? Huh? Huh? We have inquiring minds. Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk Sky2high@aol.com II-P N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL (KARR) LML, where ideas collide and you decide! -------------------------------1091807576 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In a message dated 8/6/2004 9:31:43 AM Central Standard Time,=20 Rob.Logan@Philips.com writes:
<= FONT=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size= =3D2>note to=20 self: the prop requires oil pressure
to work..

another note to s= elf:=20 if the oil preshure is changing,
find the closest=20 airport.
Rob,
 
With my Hartzell hydraulic compact constant speed prop, the default (no= oil=20 pressure) position is flat pitch (take-off position).  Everyone should=20= move=20 their prop control forward - flat pitch - while on approach to landing and n= ote=20 the increased drag from the propeller created disc.  It is interesting=20= to=20 know and sometimes useful to take a bit of speed out of the approach without= =20 changing the aircraft's pitch.
 
What about those electric props?  What about a total electric=20 failure?  Huh?  Huh?  We have inquiring minds.
 
Scott Krueger=20 AKA Grayhawk
Sky2high@aol.com
II-P N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL=20 (KARR)

LML, where ideas collide and you=20 decide!
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