Hi all,

Well I took the plunge today and accomplished flying in high winds. The weather today in North Texas was gusty NW wind from 6 to 22 knots. I read all the post on the web site that dealt with flying in high winds, just to make sure I didn't pull any bonehead mistakes. I also practiced with RFG2 to learn want to expect. I had ran a tank though on the ground, just to measure how long the engine would run on a full tank.

I kept having a problems with my OS .40 LA engine stalling. I have never had this problem before.The first 3 tries, I got it maybe 30' up, and then the engine would die...talk about your trial by fire....dead stick into the winds mentioned above. But, no problems landing, just kept the nose down and landed just fine.

Finally, I set the avistar's engine to a real rich mixture and got it up. My girlfriend called me a hard headed, for trying to fly in the strong winds as they were, but living in north Texas, you have got to learn to fly into the wind. The flight was great, talk about your thrills, whew man! After about 10 minutes, and couple of practice approaches, she landed as smooth as ice.

After a short nicotine break...needed it after that...I attempted to try again, engine started just fine, got it 25 feet up, and the darn thing stalled again, this time to close for me to flair, so the front nose gear's plastic collar snapped.

My question to the group is what can I do to keep the engine from stalling? I have flown the avi 5 times before with no problems, don't know what is causing the engine to start stalling in the air and run just fine on the ground.

Thanks in advance.