My engine quit!
Paul Tomblin wrote:
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So I figure I probably flooded it.
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can you flood an engine while it is running? I'm not an engine guy, but
with the throttle at minimum, not much fuel should be going in, and this
is not much different from taxiing, except you would usually lean for
that. Might be running richer than you like, but that happens during a
normal landing since you are running at low rpm's, throttle low, mixture
rich, fuel pump on, pretty much what you were doing, except in your case
the throttle was lower for longer. You might expect some fouling if you
ran like this for a while, but I don't see how it can flood as long as
the spark plugs are doing that sparky thing they do.
Of course, I could be all wet here.
Brad
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