Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #67765
From: Douglas Brunner <douglasbrunner@earthlink.net>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: RE: [LML] GAMI lean test IO550N
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:55:09 -0500
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>

Paul,

 

Looks to me that you have a spread of about 0.4 which - as far as I understand - is pretty good.

 

Suggest you send it to GAMI.  They will look at it and give you a better educated opinion.  They will NOT recommend you get their injectors if you don’t need them.  ( I sent in a lean test on my Mooney Ovation and they told me it was fine as is)

 

D. Brunner N241DB 700 hours

GAMI injectors

 

From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Paul Miller
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 4:48 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] GAMI lean test IO550N

 

 I haven't run a lean test on this IO550N before.  I've never removed the injectors in 768 hours.

 

On my way from Calgary to central Florida (one stop in Omaha, never done that before) I ran the lean test with the following basic results.  I'm interested in any feedback from this graph. I ran this test at 9500 feet and by the end the test was getting about 230TAS and all CHTs below 300 LOP.   I had good tailwinds so I was grounding 270K and flew Calgary to Omaha on 51G of avgas at 13,500.  As usual, I did that entire trip VFR with great help all the way from controllers.

Paul

Legacy RG

 

PS: Over the Atlanta arrival route I was asked to remain at 13,500 until clear.  I encountered the top of a misty mountain for about 15 seconds.   The windshield had some light crystals which disappeared immediately.  The wing leading edge had 1/16 inch of very light rime (I could see the line down through the landing light cover) like a white pencil lead laying spanwise along the leading edge.  You could barely see it.   I'm sure the prop had something similar.  I lost 20-25 knots in a heartbeat and never got it back for half an hour.  It was -6C.

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