Florida in 6.3 hours!

Flew through/over the storm as it was dumping on Madison, departures
from MSN halted due to heavy snowfall

Yuck. It makes me shiver just to think about a flight into a major winter
snow storm, at night...

Spend Friday night and Saturday night at Opreyland Nashville

You talking about the Opryland Hotel? Man, that is one neat hotel.
Outrageously priced, but cool nonetheless.

Pick up 2 seats for the Aztec

You needed two more seats?

Arrive Adams, WI 1600 central time, 5 hours in the air, 120 gallons of
fuel

Ouch. I tell you what, it hurt buying avgas 65 gallons of that blue crap at
a time on this trip -- I can't imagine 120! I've gotten very spoiled with
mogas, and the sticker shock of buying $200 worth of gas at every stop made
me realize how lucky I am to have that auto gas STC.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

you do seem to have a bit *too* much trouble with 100LL. There are lots
of these engines running around on Avgas without near as much difficulty.
I'm wondering what spark plugs you are running? Can you check, and let us
know?

Yeah, I'm wondering about that. I know this time was probably due to the
extended period of idling, awaiting my clearance to depart -- but, shoot, I
had it leaned back pretty good. Or so I thought.

I may need a hotter running plug. Any suggestions?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article JNM%d.9117$fn3.7400@attbi_s01,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:



Yeah, I'm wondering about that. I know this time was probably due to the
extended period of idling, awaiting my clearance to depart -- but, shoot, I
had it leaned back pretty good. Or so I thought.

I've been wondering about the 100LL "problems" also. I never had any
problems with the O-470 in my 182, and we don't have any problems with
the IO-520s in the 206s. Now the 206s are used in a skydive op so it's
climbpower for most of the time they're running, with low power during
the descent. My 182 I used 2300/22inches for cruise...leaned on the
ground but not to extreme. In just over 800 hours I only had a fouled
plug twice that I can remember.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

The "heavy wet" part told us that there was a temperature inversion above,
because ground temp was only 24F. The snow was falling through a layer of
warmer air that was between 3000 and 6000. Tops at 15, no iceing above 6,
we flew at 11 and only found light snow.

Yep, Opryland Hotel. We stayed there 15 years ago for our honeymoon, this
was an anniversary trip. You're right outrageously priced. $200 and $300
rooms, they actually make you pay $8 per day to park, mixed drinks $6-$7...
TAX on 2 $6 mixed drinks = $2.47 !! Resort tax & state tax...printed right
on the reciept.

Nice relaxing weekend away from Wisconsin's snow and ice plus flying topped
off with a very happy wife.... priceless.

You needed two more seats?

The rear seat in our Aztec is a bench. The seatback of the bench seperates
the cabin from the rear baggage compartment. The seat rails for the center
bucket seats extend all the way under the rear bench. So several Aztec
owners have field approvals to remove the rear bench and put buckets in the
rear row. This allows you to remove one of them for extra baggage and
allows access to the rear baggage from the cabin. It also makes carrying
skis and more than 4 sets of golf clubs easier.

We found higher gas prices the further south we went. Granted, we didn't
take the time to shop, we simply didn't have time to divert. One nice thing
about having 140 gal tanks is when we are close to cheap fuel, we try to
plan to get as much as we can.

Jim

Jay Honeck wrote:
you do seem to have a bit *too* much trouble with 100LL. There are lots
of these engines running around on Avgas without near as much difficulty.
I'm wondering what spark plugs you are running? Can you check, and let us
know?


Yeah, I'm wondering about that. I know this time was probably due to the
extended period of idling, awaiting my clearance to depart -- but, shoot, I
had it leaned back pretty good. Or so I thought.

I may need a hotter running plug. Any suggestions?

If you constantly have problems with 100LL then the problem is you or
your engine. I run mostly mogas but literally I cannot tell when 100LL
is in the tanks. It runs exactly the same in all seasons on any mixture
of mogas/100LL. I have never had a fouled plug and I don't lean
carefully on the ground, sometimes I pull the mixture out sometimes I
don't. Makes no difference. And here in the summer the DA usually gets
to 7000. If you have all these problems then you've got a problem not
related to the type of fuel.