I learned something that hopefully will save someone some

worry. Last Sunday I ran my engine for the first time and took the RPM to 1500 and tryed to cycle the prop nothing

happened, to make a long story short I should have taken

the engine up to over 2000RPM to make the prop cycle.

Not sure if this is on the first start or if it's a full feathering

prop butnI can tell you it had me going for a couple of days.

The result was I took the RPM to 2200 and it worked fine,

hope my experiance can save someone else some time.

By the way Scott Becker at Lancair was the first to

mention this as a possibility

Art,

 

This happens every time I take my Hartzell Constant Speed prop off and drain the oil from it.  It just takes patience to wait for the prop to respond to the coarse pitch request during run-up at 1800 rpm to get the oil circulating thru the prop.  It must take a while for the air to work its way out of the governor system.  Recently I made 7 ground runs at 2600 rpm for dynamic prop balancing and the next flight required similar patience before the prop responded to a pull on the control.

 

Once the prop has moved to coarse pitch, subsequent run-ups have resulted in quick response from the prop.