Thanks RTK. I did find a pretty large piece of foreign material in the carb. This plane has some mileage on it and what really puzzled me this morning was how good it was flying and then all the sudden how bad it ran. I will try and run it again, now that the dirt is out of the carb and see what happens. I might be a little sensitive to temps but I was curious so I am using a lazer thermometer to take my readings. What concerned me also was that a guy at the field today had a DA-50 in the same airframe, and he flew for about 7-10 mins and when he came down his was at 190-195. No this was a two day old motor with 4 flights on it but I kind of think that I should be closer to that temp. I am also still new to gassers, so this whole thing could be my ignorance in the gas arena. Hopefully this will take care of it. Thanks for the advice so far.


Tom