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Old 05-16-2005 | 10:37 PM
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Default RE: Pullstart Airplane Engine?

It's a good way to wind up with a trip to the emergency room.
I fly at a club in the middle of no where out in the country. The nearest hospital is like 1/2 an hour away assuming the ambulance driver can negotiate all the pot holes. Although they could just dispatch CalStar's Bell 222 Air Ambulance and have it here in like 5 seconds. The club I fly at is a unused taxiway at KPRB (Paso Robles Municipal Airport) and you have to drive across the taxiway from a dirt road across the runway to the pits. CalStar's hangar is right across the airport (~1 mile)



Back on topic, so far, my flipstarting is going pretty well...today, first flip- nothing, second flip- coughed, third flip- starts up! Oh and Chad, I had a half tank like I usually fill it up at so I know it wasn't that and my fuel lines were not broken because one of my relatives custom made it and it is very thick. And I checked, too.

Thanks for the help!