ORIGINAL: islandhobbies
well, if i did all i supposed to do
1. correct fuel, correct oil, correct mixture.
2. took advice from the seller whom i thouht had proper experience and he told me the turbine was perfect, go fly.
what else is their? besides taking the turbine out before flight and sending to the manufacturer? which he (the seller)said was not needed.
3. on the first flight, the turbine spat out red hot blades, shut down and with no recovery time, the craft went down.
That engine is interesting. I cannot think of a scenario that would cause that damage if the ECU behaves as it should. The ECU should have shutdown that engine long before it got to that condition. Something seriously went wrong inside that engine. I would like to see pictures of the combustor, fuel ring etc. I am pretty sure its not lube related. Did the compressor rub the front intake?
Regardless of what happened or not it seems to me the buyer got the short end of the stick. The Seller is just is too defensive....