ORIGINAL: alan0899
G'day Sigrun,
Where is it written that one must extract every last rev out of an engine, we run an OS 46AX, with an APC 12x6, & a Taipan green plug, my girlfriend flys it, in her Skyraider mk1, at half throttle, & even at full throttle it is still very controllable, the motor don't care, it is always a first flick, against compression start, & runs sweet.
Come to our field sometime & we'll show ya.
Here it is at Armidale last year, that is her plane at the home page, & we are not even members,
http://nemac.com.au/
Thanks for that.
For all those disputing whether or not it is a good idea to get an 'overpowered' engine, I honestly don't care about this particular one, because it is not that overpowered, and I understand that as soon as you have enough speed to get off the ground, you've got enough speed to back off to at least 3/4 throttle, and probably 1/2 at altitude...like I said earlier, I do know how to fly, and for any actual plane pilots reading this, should understand, that it would come more naturally as they understand better what the plane is going to do as they have probably made the mistakes/done the same movements in learning how to fly...
Cheers for all the advice everyone!
Kendall