Originally Posted by
Didier
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.
Temps are from top cylinder. I thought that it may be some minor issue that's why I opened only one cylinder. When I realized it's serious I mounted cylinder back, let service investigate what could cause cuch damage. I usually warm up my engines for abt 2 mins before flight, I had never failure of this nature.