Return-Path: Received: from imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.71] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 3062690 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 04 Mar 2004 08:13:02 -0500 Received: from TOSHIBAjhr ([209.215.55.78]) by imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20040304131301.LGS1901.imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net@TOSHIBAjhr> for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:13:01 -0500 From: "John Slade" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: ready to start? Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:13:00 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: > I was not planning on installing the prop yet. I see others have > successfully started their engines without a prop. I think the latest was > John Slade? True - it did start - but it was VERY rich. With the prop on it runs MUCH better. I found the throttle fairly easy to control, with no tendency to overrev, but that may have been because it was running so badly.