I seem to remember that you had an Ellison. None of the throttle body carbs have accelerator pumps. Neither do the Zenith carbs that Great Plains sells for the VW or some of the other varieties that we use on VWs and Vairs. You must always remember on a carb without an accelerator pump that you need to apply the throttle no faster than a few seconds from idle to full throttle. Try it on the ground and get a feel for how fast you can shove the throttle in before you panic and do it in the air.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: KR> 2013 KR Gathering Trip - Very Long Story. From: "Dan Heath" <danrh at windstream.net> List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Wed, February 12, 2014 2:53 pm To: "'KRnet'" <krnet at list.krnet.org> I am not sure why the engine quit, but I have a guess at it. I went around several times trying to land and after having had the engine quit, at another time, when on a lean setting and giving throttle to go around, I realized that I should have had it on rich to be pushing in the throttle quickly. So, on my first approach, I put the mixture to rich, and left it there. I think that by pulling back to idle on each attempt with the mixture rich, the plugs had loaded up, so when the airspeed got really low upon getting the wheels on the ground, there was not enough air passing over the prop to keep it running at that low throttle setting and the plugs had probably loaded up with too much lead. I won't make that mistake again. I often wonder, how many mistakes is a person allowed before it is all over? Given the high winds, I could have landed under power at around 100 mph airspeed and still touched down under 80 ground speed and been perfectly safe. I think physical exhaustion played a part in it, having not gotten much rest for two days and then making the long trip. I was worn out. There is a lot to this flying thing that we don't always think about. I hope I live long enough, I am over 70, to get it figured out. See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics Peoples Choice at 2013 - KR Gathering in Mt. Vernon, Il ? MVN Best KR at 2013 - KR Gathering in Mt. Vernon, Il ? MVN Best Interior at 2013 - KR Gathering in Mt. Vernon, Il ? MVN Best Paint at 2013 - KR Gathering in Mt. Vernon, Il ? MVN Best Firwwall Forward at 2013 - KR Gathering in Mt. Vernon, Il ? MVN Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC -----Original Message----- Were you able to figure out why your engine quit? _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options
