Thanks, Gieff, and you're right of course, once you get into something you need to experience and research it.

I do find, not being a science person, that there's only so much I'm willing or able to learn up front, but once I get the NEED to know, I work at it--and become READY for it. Newbie fliers are the same way. If you overload them with information, you really hurt them. An asked question, however, is always answered--because that QUESTION indicates the need to know. Yet... knowing is about diversity and separation, one thing from another, getting the facts; UNDERSTANDING concerns integration and synthesis, when everything, facts and experience, come together.

Now, where is this "Saito club" of which you speak?

Another question: since we're dealing with BOTH 2 and 4 cycles, I would think you would HAVE to put aro in the head of a 2 stroke--or remove the muffler--to get the oil down in the bearings. Like you, I run those engines almost every day, weather permitting (and when not maybe a four day stretch).

Lordy, lordy, today we started at 11:00 am, in light snow, no sun, low clouds, and flew, just two of us, until 4:30--great sun and high clouds after 11:30. I saw Downtrodden run his OS .61 Twist 25 minutes! on one tank (11 oz. tank)! 13 x 5 prop. Variable wind, fun to play in. Wish I had videos.

I can only hope your day in CA was half as good.

Jack