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Old 15th Feb 2006, 04:51
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185skywagon
 
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Originally Posted by tinpis
Hot start from 30 odd years ago.
Fuel injected
Mixture rich /Throttle closed
Hit the primer and open throttle until you see the fuel flow .STOP!
Mixure idle cut off
Throttle set
Kick it in the guts
Mixture to rich when it fires.
(Throttle jiggling as required for extra pax appeal)
Adjust sunglasses and smoothly taxi over the chocks .
(Hows me memory Chuckles?)
Tin, I use this for the 185 and IO-520 (plus a bit of fuel pump tickling when it starts to fire up). Don't know how I came across it? Just started doing it this way to stop animated onlookers from observing induction fires.
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