P&W 1830 (Twin Wasp) starting
Quote from Brian Abraham:
"Chris, since you mention "meshing" assume you are talking of the inertia starters (lovely sound) and your memory does not fail you."
Well, it had certainly had on one point: failure to prime the 1830s (dash 92s in our case) at the beginning of the start sequence. Might need some retraining before flying the old Gooney Bird again? My recollection is that it was a one-arm paper-hanging exercise to get them started.
Have lost whatever notes I made in 1967. (We had some highly experienced Dak operators in Morton's.) The 1946 Pilot's Notes for Dakota IV (Dash 90Cs) does not mention any requirement for counting a minimum number of blades before opening the mixture control to AUTO RICH, but I'm reasonably sure that's what we did on the Dash 92 – was it 7 blades (i.e., 2 revs)?