Chuck wrote:

        I returned from a trip to visit my sister near Seattle and back through San
Diego to visit with Mike Wills. I left Safford AZ June 7 Thursday AM, flew
over the Grand Canyon to Cedar City, UT, then to Nampa, ID then to
Arlington, WA, then arrived at Friday Harbor 6PM. Sunday I left Friday
Harbor about 10AM, flew to Independence, OR then to Vacaville CA. Spent the
night there, then took off Monday AM for San Diego. Skirted to the east of
LAX (no transponder) and landed at Ramona to meet with Mike and fellow RV
builder Ron. I gave them both "inspiration" rides. I came home Tuesday, 2
hours 35 minutes from San Diego.

        I had a blast, the trip went real good, except for two problems. First, I
had a trailing plug fail , it broke the insulator and would misfire badly
with full throttle after a few seconds. I think the broken pieces of
insulator would glow and cause preignition. So I just used less than full
power, fortunately don't need full power to take off.
        Second, I noticed that on take-off at the low elevation fields, which was
most of them on this trip, the RPM would be at 5200 which is normal, then it
would drop off after 3 or 4 seconds into the takeoff roll to maybe 4700. It
was "interesting" at first! My established minimum T.O. RPM is 4700, so it
still lifted off fine.

Ed Anderson - I remember you posting about similar occurrences with the prop
speed, but cannot recall what the resolution (if any) was.

Chuck Dunlap
N616RV - RV6 with 13B

Wow that is quite a western tour Chuck.
These rotaries are really coming into their own when people can make long trips
like that. Chuck also flew from Arizona to Florida this year for Sun & Fun.

BTW did you ever get your new throttle body installed?

Paul Lamar
 
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