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Old 08-31-2011, 04:09 PM
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Default RE: You Can Do Engine Problems

No, the problem will still be there. Much of the problem of starting an inverted engine is that oil and fuel tends to collect on the plug. You can help this somewhat by the way you store the model. Some glow engines are tough to start for the first flight of the day when mounted inverted, but subsequent flights usually have no problem. Starting with the model inverted does help, but is very unsafe unless everyone helping knows exactly how to handle the airplane when turning it back over and putting it on the wheels. Even then, if you do fire it up inverted for the first flight, you might consider killing the engine once it is warmed up and then turning it over to restart.