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I was doing my BFR last night in my club's Piper Lance (in case you're not
familiar: it has retractable gear and a IO-540 fuel injected engine). We finished up with a bunch of touch and goes, demonstrating short, soft, etc. The last landing, the instructor pulled the throttle and had me do a forced landing. I had no trouble making the runway, and rolled off the runway and over the hold short line. As I was tuning the ground frequency on the radio, the engine died. And I was unable to restart it and neither was the instructor - I ended up having to call the FBO to tow me back to the tie down line. It wasn't until some hours later that it hit me - during the forced approach, I had the throttle at idle, the mixture at rich and the boost pump on. Which is exactly how you prime it for a cold start - except for starting you only do it for about 3 seconds, and this was for the whole duration of the forced approach. So I figure I probably flooded it. So what's the answer? Do you turn off the boost pump when doing practice forced approaches? What about normal approaches? Does that mean turning on the boost pump has to become a normal action on go-arounds and touch and goes? -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ You'll get access to my computer room right after you pry the Halon test key out of my cold, lifeless hands. -- Simon Travaglia |
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