Piper J3
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I’m curious if I’m the only person that does this…. I shut off engine ignitions in flight – . I started doing this years ago when flying my J-3 Cub. The Cub had a Continental A65-8 with Eisemann Magnetos originally used on farm tractors back in the 1920s. Suffice to say – not a great confidence builder. I often would fly the Cub, and now the RV-12, up to the islands in western Lake Erie. The islands are a couple of miles offshore and so I started a habit of verifying both ignitions were running solidly before acting like Christopher Columbus.
So, to this day, I often will shut off one ignition at a time while in cruise flight to verify RPM drop and compare engine smoothness when running on separate ignitions.
Need to be very careful when doing this so you don’t shut both ignitions off at same time. Things would get quiet really fast.
Anybody else do this? I doubt if this is taught in ground school…
So, to this day, I often will shut off one ignition at a time while in cruise flight to verify RPM drop and compare engine smoothness when running on separate ignitions.
Need to be very careful when doing this so you don’t shut both ignitions off at same time. Things would get quiet really fast.
Anybody else do this? I doubt if this is taught in ground school…