X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao12.cox.net ([68.230.241.27] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTP id 922712 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:11:20 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.27; envelope-from=ALVentures@cox.net Received: from BigAl ([68.7.14.39]) by fed1rmmtao12.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060111220804.PWCU17437.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@BigAl> for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:08:04 -0500 From: "Al Gietzen" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Momentary pucker X's 3 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:10:49 -0800 Message-ID: <000001c616fb$e1148aa0$6400a8c0@BigAl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C616B8.D2F14AA0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C616B8.D2F14AA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Flying around the neighborhood today and about 30 minutes into flight there was a momentary hic-up. Everything on monitor looked normal, so richened a tad and continued flying. About 5 minutes later, same thing second verse, and then a third time. Went to full power and rich and it did not repeat. No miss while descending to land or while taxing in. Ran up a full static for a minute on the ground and everything appeared normal. Any suggestions??? Hum-m-m. Did hiccup seem like total power loss, or possibly just one rotor? Check all electrical connections associated with ignition and fuel injection. Check for possibility of small amounts of water though fuel system. Anything about conditions at the time that might suggest intermittent vapor bubbles into pump. Check data-logger for blips in fuel pressure (oops; there's that 'no data-logger' issue again). Al ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C616B8.D2F14AA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Flying around the neighborhood today and about 30 minutes into = flight

there was a momentary hic-up. Everything on monitor looked normal, = so

richened a tad and continued flying. About 5 minutes later, same = thing

second verse, and then a third time. Went to full power and rich and = it

did not repeat. No miss while descending to land or while taxing in. = Ran

up a full static for a minute on the ground and everything = appeared

normal.

Any suggestions???

Hum-m-m.

Did hiccup = seem like total power loss, or possibly just one rotor?

Check all electrical connections associated with = ignition and fuel injection.

Check for = possibility of small amounts of water though fuel system.

Anything = about conditions at the time that might suggest intermittent vapor bubbles = into pump. Check data-logger for blips in fuel pressure (oops; there’s that = ‘no data-logger’ issue again).

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