ORIGINAL: SplitWings

Several people have said that there are more similarities than differences when changing from glow to gas. I've found the following:

1. You need to choke the engine before starting. Some people use a separate servo to do this, which can double as a kill switch.

Yes, but a manual choke can work as well

2. Many (not all?) gas engines have an electronic ignition. Do you mount this directly on the engine or the firewall? This requires and additional battery pack?

the ignition box is mounted to the fierwall or engine box, electronic igniton uses a seperate battery pack

3. Different fuel tubing is needed so the gas doesn't destroy the glow fuel tubing.

Tygon and areotrend are the two types of gas fuel tubing

4. I think I've seen pilots use two switches on the plane. Is one the regular switch/battery for the receiver, and the other for the ignition to the engine?

5. Most gas engines are started by flipping the prop by hand, as opposed to using and electic starter on glow.

Use a heavy leather glove or chicken stick for safty

Any other differences that I've missed? Anything above incorrect (its entirely possible). I'm hoping to find some gas planes at the airfield tomorrow. Hopefully I can talk to someone at the airfield that can show me around their gas powered plane, but all of this info is of great help.

No Slime on the plane after every flight!

Thanks again. Joe