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Old 1st Aug 2008, 20:13
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echobeach
 
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I found it very difficult doing a hot start last weekend in a fuel injected Arrow. I have flown a different Arrow for a year, that always started with no problems hot or cold.

Flew a different Arrow last weekend. On the 4th hot start of the day following exactly the POH instructions it would not start. After so many starts with no problem I could not believe I might get stuck far from base. In the past after a few attempts when I thought I had flooded the engine I found that that opening throttle fully and then mixture ICO to full when firing always worked, but even this failed.

I don’t know why this was so difficult. Started in the end but lost some of my confidence with hot starts. Any thoughts ?
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