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In article "Ted Heath" >Daniel you are the right track any EGT indications are better than none. >EGT is telling you what the mixture ratio is at your different RPM power >regimes. Everyone knows what happens when two strokes run lean. >Never listen to people who say you dont need this or that, or I do this, >you could reflect on their advice for 30 seconds or so as you glide engine >off to your death. >Their talk is cheap. I agree the indicators are nice but the last line brings up a favorite subject. You will never have enough "things" to provide the needed assurance unless you have two certificated engines. I dont believe I can ever trust a 2-cylinder engine with my life. Maybe people have to do that who live and fly in very rough terrain but my philosophy is that I will never fly anywhere in my ultraight where I could not survive a forced landing. I never fly low over big timber or unlandable terrain. Its not that hard to do. One might take a chance on damaging the machine but I always want to survive EVEN IF THE ENGINE QUITS AT ANT TIME. It is really possible to always have landing spot picked out automatically while flying without becoming a chronic paranoid pilot. Dan - dont really need no dual ignition - dont need no dual fuel pump - dont need no airspeed indicator I do like a good tachometer and hate flying without one. I think it is the most important instrument on a 2-stroke (especially on takeoff). I must admit once this summer at a new airfield I was flying around low outside the pattern and watching traffic when I strayed across a large Oak grove at 200 feet. There was about 30-45 seconds where I could have been eating tree if ANYTHING went wrong and the hair was standing up on the back of my neck. Good engine instruments would not have helped. Better attention outside the cockpit was needed. -------------- Daniel Grunloh (grunloh@uiuc.edu) http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~grunloh |
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