Well, you fared better than I did. Glad you were OK.
---- Dan Heath <danrh at windstream.net> wrote:
> 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?
>
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> Daniel R. Heath -?Lexington, SC
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Were you able to figure out why your engine quit?
>
>
>
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