As a slight aside, I am always amazed that in these days of most new cars being available with fuel injection and sophisticated engine management systems - meaning that they always start first turn of the key in any weather; That aircraft piston engines are still using carburetors, primers, mixture controls, carb icing controls, booster pumps etc. etc. all operated manually by the poor sweating/freezing pilot!
Obviously, aircraft engines require more redundancy than a car's single system, but that would not be difficult to arrange.
Last edited by Uplinker; 3rd April 2013 at 10:50.