RE: DA50 - Hard to Start, Idle Unreliable
Well I thought that it may be a cold engine problem as well (the first time it dead sticked it was in the 40's), but it was about 5 minutes into the flight. Also, doesn't the idle get higher as the engine temp goes up? Recently it has been very cold in CO, so this weekend I'll see if the engine is even less cooperative, however it was about 70 degrees when i last flew it and it still deadsticked once. It isn't overheating as I have the high end rich from peak. I have tried richening the low end a tad, but that seems to make the deadsticking more often. It doesn't feel to rich as any leaner it will try to die as I advance the throttle.
Maybe I should just set it to 2000, use the idle down feature on my radio, and see what happens. The deadsticking has only happened when tuned for about 1900.
Also, I am not sure if you guys need to know, but its running a menz 22x8, and i have the needles (best settings so far) at 1.5 high and 1.5 low.