Prop sync and noise in twins
Dudley Henriques wrote:
We had a Cessna 337 on our line for charter use at one time. It had a sync
gauge. Strangely enough, whenever I had occasion to fly this bird I always
ended up syncing the props by ear. You could easily feel if one of them was
out even by a small amount of RPM.
The C-402s I used to fly had a prop syncrophaser but I never knew it to work.
The ear, OTOH, never lied. I never thought it was much of a problem to synch
twins. I'd have to ask my father about how they synched the props in the
Connies and C-54s.
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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com
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