It didn't seem to be a rushed thing.
first he would close the mixture and turn the engine over for 30secs.
then full mixture, zero throttle
Turn the engine while pumping primer.
Depending on type as soon as it fired he would either transfer the key hand to the throttle while locking the primer. Or finish the pump stroke locking it.
Then hand to the throttle.
The result was always the same engine ticking over at 600-700 with no over reving. And on the rare occasions it didn't work it was pulled into the hangar for the engineer to watch while he pulled the spark plugs and did things to it.
Another one of his phrases was "let the bugger be with all that noise, give it a couple of mins to get used to the idea its going flying"
Last edited by tescoapp; 26th December 2007 at 23:57.