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10-31-2002 | 10:42 PM

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From: San José, Costa Rica

Chicken Stick Or Electic Starter?

I'ld say it depends (as most thing in life).... depends on the engine, depends on the people, depends on the hardware...
The engine:
In our club most everybody used OS's or ST's and everybody used a starter.. along came the Irvine's 1.50 and .53 and the back-flip method was tried.. lo and behold it worked no more ugly stripes on the plastic spinners.... now the method has worked on other but for the love of my.. I can't get those .40 LA's to fire with the stick or a cold super tigre either.
The people: some like chicken..some steak (rare that is) we use either a stick or starter as mentioned before one or two fellows use the fingers and had some cuts.. hence the rare steak.
The hardware:
I personally would hate to have starter grooves on the beautiful white spinner on my cloud dancer, plus the reliability of the Irvine makes it a breeze to fire it with a back flip. My son's trainer is banged up a little so we get the starter and crank it up.

To me..... there is also the added WOW!!! factor asociated with priming the beast, put the nicad.. one "casual" back flip and voila!!! the monster comes alive..... don't you remember the pride of older mechanics to have tha knack to start full size airplanes by turning the prop "just right"....... but now we traded that for the ignition switch and if it doesn' start as it should the first time, here come the expletives....

we went to a fly-in where most pilots use a starter and we came with a H9 cap 232 (27%) and the big Irvine... by the time we fired it for the 3rd time we had quite a crowd learning....

My $0.02

Best Regards,
Patrick

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