ORIGINAL: bruce88123
Listen up bigtim - Ken's right and you're wrong. It's as simple as that. I've exchanged messages with BAX (the OS rep) in the past and he advised just as Ken says. The engines have less than 3 minutes run time on them as delivered. They have been factory started, very roughly tuned and shut down. The limiters are then put on and the engines cleaned and boxed. They need to be broken in properly.
Even if you refuse to believe the obvious truth due to being simply stuborn you will have to admit that it surely won't hurt to follow the proceedure. It doesn't mean running several tanks through on the ground just one, then just run a bit rich for a few flights.
This also means the term "factory settings" is some form of Oxymoron.[sm=bananahead.gif] "Well my engine is preset at the factory! " Yeh right! tell that to all of us at 5000ft. I beleive you all in Saskatoon are around 1500ft. Not bad but a minor loss in numbers