Overheating
Hi Cliff,
Thanks for your comment about Merlins not being prone to overheating in your experience - the comment may indeed have been made about trainee pilots not getting things moving quickly enough on a hot day. Thinks: much training was carried in daytime; possibly continuous high boost and revs during Circuits and Landings on summer days might have led to the comment?
I did some flying in the USA years ago, and after a fair amount of 'hot and high' I found myself automatically leaning the mixture for max power once back in the UK - even while taxying on a hot day - something which distressed youthful instructors, who thought it was supposed to be an on/off switch...
Ho hum...
Cheers,
Dave