Author Topic: And that is why we don't get low and slow  (Read 1349 times)

Offline Stoney

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Re: And that is why we don't get low and slow
« Reply #30 on: July 04, 2011, 09:10:41 PM »
Relative to my incident, turned out to be a blown compression seal on the piston of number five pot, which just happens to be one with the monitor. The piston is melted. Makes me wonder what would have happened if the same situation occured on a cylinder without a monitor.  :headscratch:

We're going to replace all six cylinders and fit a six point engine monitor. So that's a good result.

How many hours on the other cylinders?  Seems like a lot of expense unless they were all high-time or the bore-scope revealed something.
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Offline cpxxx

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Re: And that is why we don't get low and slow
« Reply #31 on: July 05, 2011, 05:56:25 PM »
The boss isn't taking any chances. It might be unneccessary but he's taking no chances.

I just want to thank Wolfala for all the help he's given us. We spoke via Skype today. He took time out of his clearly busy day to help a fellow aviator, sent me a ton of documents and really educated us on piston engine management and he's offered more help.  I'm certainly better informed now than I was a few days ago.

Thanks Wolfala :salute

Offline Wolfala

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Re: And that is why we don't get low and slow
« Reply #32 on: July 05, 2011, 06:01:02 PM »
The boss isn't taking any chances. It might be unneccessary but he's taking no chances.

I just want to thank Wolfala for all the help he's given us. We spoke via Skype today. He took time out of his clearly busy day to help a fellow aviator, sent me a ton of documents and really educated us on piston engine management and he's offered more help.  I'm certainly better informed now than I was a few days ago.

Thanks Wolfala :salute


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