Tom,

Yeah I'm still a closet airstarter. I do love the sound when you hit the air and the thing starts spooling up. What I dislike far outweighs what I like though. The sound of the air petering out in the middle of a start, my engine not starting but filling up with kero for the next, VERY exciting start. Yep that's when it was nice to have the air to blow the flames out. Where I am located the closest scuba shop is 45 minutes away, but they keep their compressor at a different location and you have to drop off your tanks and pick them back up the next day. I'm too busy for that! I used to keep two bottles full, I went to fly one Sunday afternoon Had not had a chance to fly in a couple of weeks. I did one start and flight then went through the scenario I just mentioned above. Only probelm was my second tank had develpoped a leak in th evalve and I was out of air. Oh yeah.....and I had driven 2 hours to get to where I was flying. Packed back up pissed off and started looking at autostart engines. I won't own another airstart engine. You are right I sound like a broken record touting autostart but talk to 20 guys and I bet at least 19 of them will say the same thing I do.

David Reid