KR> lean of peak operation

2009-04-19 Thread Mark Langford
Dan Heath wrote: > Did you mean 142mph, not 124mph? What is the CHT that you run when LOP? Yep, I meant 142 mph. I swap numbers around sometimes between brain and paper. The average CHT went from 256F to 273F (got that number wrong too), so the increase in CHT was only 17F, rather than

KR> lean of peak operation

2009-04-19 Thread Phillip Matheson
Mark. This there a reason you use low octan fuel instead of 100LL avgas or 98 premium fuel? And how much improvement would you get with avgas?? Or is it all to with fuel price. Avgas here is around $1.75 per litre Phil Matheson SAAA Ch. 20 http://www.saaa20.org/ VH-PKR Australia EMAIL:

KR> lean of peak operation

2009-04-18 Thread Mark Langford
VairHeads, We recently had a discussion on running lean of peak EGTs on CorvAircraft, and the conversation went from "don't you dare do it", to "I do it all the time" (that was me). Today I was flying back from Jack Cooper's place and almost fell asleep an hour into the flight. I figured