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Old 25th Nov 2014, 09:23
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Outwest
 
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I agree that the captions are there, but that is no guarantee that the ignitors are firing.

Noooby, thanks very much for the reference, that was what I was looking for.

In that same manual, does it say why the 10 sec limit is quoted in the RFM? If I recall from my 212 days there is a certain amount of fuel pressure from the high pressure pump that is required to open the flow divider, so I'm thinking that AW/Pratt is saying that if by the time you reach 10 secs without light up then the flow divider has not opened.

Am I on the right track? I don't go along with the too much fuel in the can theory, if that was the case selecting the mode switch to off at that critical moment just as it lights would be a sure fire ( pun intended) way to an exhaust fire or hot start.

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