Robinson R44

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Yes the turboed fuel system on the ’47 certainly took some understanding.

A so called redundancy system that was guaranteed to fail if left on and therefore would not be available to take over when / if the engine driven one failed.

I reckon that anyone who flies or allows continuance of that system without modding it to the auto pressure cut-in mode has got to be possessive of the dimmest intelligence imaginable, right up to and and including regulatory airworthiness types.

Jemax,
Best advice you can give them is, “your engine is your life – look after it.”

When you next chop the throttle whip out a card at the same time covering the MAP, OP and CHT instruments and challenge them to quote verbatim the last readings. No doubt all of your students would pass with flying colours, not forgetting at the same time to be doing all of the life-saving things that they are supposed to when you chopped the noise, EH?

It may help to adopt a waiting – staring at them pose at the same time, it may help them think that they were supposed to be learning something there.

Cheers tet