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cjhukill(at)cox.net
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 Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:42 am Post subject: Lycoming reliability |
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Those Lycs in your shop having top end work, for whatever reason, are there because they continued to run, while providing symptoms to their problems. Those engines would otherwise be in some smoking hole somewhere, if there had been an immediate failure, and power loss. THAT is what reliability is in an aircraft engine, and that is what a Lyc with at least one magneto provides. Water cooling, high compression, high RPMs, gear reduction units, electronic ignition, FADEC systems, all erode away that basic reliability. My passengers will be provided with the best odds that we'll get safely on the ground, regardless how much money it costs.
If you want to save a buck, or prove something to yourself, do it in something other than a 4 seat cross country machine. And wear a parachute.
That's my 2 cents, now lets move on!
Chris Hukill
multiple Lyc engine owner
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indigoonlatigo(at)msn.com
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| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:44 am Post subject: Lycoming reliability |
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Wear a parachutte and more importantly get a glider rating and do atleast a
few cross country flights in gliders to understand how a single engine power
plane should be flown. A glider rating alone means nothing until you do it
cross country.
IMO
JOhn G.
| Quote: | From: "Chris Hukill" <cjhukill(at)cox.net>
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Subject: Lycoming reliability
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:41:14 -0800
Those Lycs in your shop having top end work, for whatever reason, are there
because they continued to run, while providing symptoms to their problems.
Those engines would otherwise be in some smoking hole somewhere, if there
had been an immediate failure, and power loss. THAT is what reliability is
in an aircraft engine, and that is what a Lyc with at least one magneto
provides. Water cooling, high compression, high RPMs, gear reduction
units, electronic ignition, FADEC systems, all erode away that basic
reliability. My passengers will be provided with the best odds that we'll
get safely on the ground, regardless how much money it costs.
If you want to save a buck, or prove something to yourself, do it in
something other than a 4 seat cross country machine. And wear a parachute.
That's my 2 cents, now lets move on!
Chris Hukill
multiple Lyc engine owner
A&P
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