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Old 10-03-2006 | 09:51 PM
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Default RE: Advice after a bad day

Ya, it was very bad luck Planeclothes
I was almost out of fuel and making an aproach when I noticed the problem. I did a couple passes but was having trouble slowing it down. Something was wrong with the engine. I decided to just kill the engine during the aproch but i couldn't get it stopped. The thing flys to the last 30ft of runway when the engine runs out of gas. I found out that the carbscrew on my engine had fallen out and the only thing holding the carb to the engine was the throttle arm. It didn't have enough tavel to kill the engine. Talkabout bad luck. []

Oh well, i got a couple flights in on my trusty durastick and hey, i am getting a new plane