PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Piston propeller check dilemma - which way?
Old 28th Mar 2011, 06:59
  #9 (permalink)  
Volume
 
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: what U.S. calls Žold EuropeŽ
Posts: 941
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
you turn the propeller (magnetos off) with your hands as many times as the number of cylinders in the engine.
No matter how many cylinders your (ungeared) engine has, if it is a 4 stroke then you need two turns of the prop to have every cylinder turned through the compression stroke.
Volume is offline