ORIGINAL: Tom Antlfinger
I am not questioning the anecdotal reports of getting shocks from planes while the motor is running or other forms of static electricity like corona around fuel lines others have seen, just that I personally have not seen these issues.......in the last 4 years, I have had 2 in-the-air flameouts, both brain-fart related.....forgot to re-fuel..........
these reports are NOT questionable !! they come right from JetCat and their reps !.. are you saying that their info is questionable ? According to one JetCat rep, they are scrambling to fix these issues and its more or less a trial and error process with no 100% definitive solutions so far. If these issues did not exist, i would not have been told NOT TO FLY MY RAFALE with a P200 in it until at least I had redone the install with the new fuel lines. Because these issues never happened to you, does not mean they do not exist. Fortunately I have never had any issues on my P80, P120, and HP5 engines ... I have however seen others with these problems on a p70, titan, and P180. Also, running the engine on the ground in the dark will not result in sparks even if there is static .. second, the plane is on some sort of surface and potential grounded....
hmmmmmm where is JetCat to comment on all this ?? the silence is deafening , with the occasional thud of yet another crashed plane…
not trying to start anything bad here or bash anyone. I am a long time JetCat user with nearly a dozen engines. I am obviously concerned and wish this could be openly and thoroughly discussed for my own benefit as well as that of others. Im sure Malcolm could have benefited by this as well ... as I understand this was not his first unexplained flame out after takeoff.. I’m sure he would have appreciated having known what was told to me by the NY JetCat rep on Desandra, and how in his conversations with Jet Cat he was told that MANY lightenings were having this problem and how its a really bad issue they are dealing with right now with all the titans and p180 flaming out from static ... now that more Ultra Bandits are getting up in the air, we are going to see issues there as well … just like Don’s Ultra which he claimed to be 99% certain it was a static issue on ( which he later denied of course, but not before telling a good 3 – 4 other people the same thing )
I think it would have been better for JetCat to have just openly put out some sort of advisory on these issues, and just level with the customer base saying they are working on the issues, and what to watch out for.
Wojtek
Wojtek