and yet another http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resources/G-BFZR.pdf
a regular reading through of light aircraft accident reports makes for a lot of food for thought Pete Pete Diffey wrote: > Mark Jones wrote: > >> Water is not the issue. My tanks were filled with 100LL after the rebuild. >> My first flight after the rebuild was thirty minutes with a hiccup at 4000' >> in level flight approximately 15 minutes into the flight. The second flight >> was for 1.5 hours and had no problems. The flight yesterday was for 1/2 hour >> with three hiccups total. These hiccups are as if someont turned off the >> ignition for a half second each time. >> >> >> > Hi Mark, > Don't like to labour the point, the fact that you have added fuel is > irrelevant, if the tank stood 3/4 empty for some weeks there could still > be water in the bottom, unless you drained it completely... > > have a read of > http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resources/Robinson%20R44%20Astro,%20G-HEPY%2005-06.pdf > http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resources/Skyranger%20912S(1),%20G-PSKY%2007-06.pdf > > I could find lots more accident reports where water in the fuel caused > an engine stop, it's probably the second most common cause of in flight > engine stopages ( carb ice being number 1 ), > > If it is indeed ignition related, what have you changed recently ? > > As an aside, single ignition systems are illegal on all aircraft except > motor-gliders and microlights - just not reliable enough. > > Good luck with figuring out what's going wrong. > > Pete > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
