Originally Posted by
darod07
You are absolutely right...It was perfect timing. What is best that ground piston skirt blocked crankshaft. Otherwise I would fly again and probably crash plane during take off. I can stand damaging engine, I wouldn't stand damaging the plane.
That is terrible the engine broke. 😏
But lucky the plane is in one peace. If I look at your data the temp was rising to 160 degrees C. Is this the temp from the broken piston? Did you check the other cylinders as well?
I noticed in your data that the warm-up time of the engine is very short. I wait to go full power until the engine is at least 120 degree C. I don’t know of course if this was a contributing factor.