From: Epijk@aol.com
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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 10:46:58 EDT
Subject: Re: Starting techniques
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Mike Salzman (arrow54t@yahoo.com) wrote:

>>Do you think that it might help to open the oil
>>stick access door as soon as you get out of the
>>airplane if you know you will be restarting soon?
>>I'm thinking that you might get a little cooling
>>air flow up through the door.  Would it be
>>significant cooling?  I don't know.  Just an
>>idea.  

I just wanted to confirm that the idea Mike suggested here works very well in 
certain installations which I know of first hand. I flew a Cessna 310 (twin 
TSIO-520's) for several years in the Southwest (warm) and found that opening 
both oil doors immediately after shutdown (and then closing them before 
startup, of course) provided quick and painless restarts of both engines 
after as little as a 10-minute shutdown. Also know a guy who built a 
Glasair-3 with the oil door freely floating on it's hinge (rather than having 
a latch). He added just the right counterweighting to the door so that it 
would close from cowl pressure above about 35 KIAS, but would flop open 
automatically below that, providing the necessary cooling to easily restart 
the FI Lycoming (the Bendix RSA system is easier to hot-restart than the 
Continental anyhow). Maybe that would be a viable approach for a Lancair?
Jack Kane
EPI, Inc.
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