Hi David

I am struggling with that at the moment as well. We convereted a Panther with open turbine bay to a P70 kerostart and although it has been faultless in starting I am concerned that a false start or overprime of some sort could lead to some damage. I have seen some kero units appear to loose prime and although those engines started there was a lot of low temp yellow flame. Over winter, I will be working on Eurofighter ( scale version ) and Bandit ARF. At this point I have elected to go with propane start with fully ducted aircraft and kero on the Panther, F84 and Elan. There are two schools of thought right now on kerostarts: those against are saying the cost would buy a lot of glow plugs and propane and the reliability is uncertain ( version 3 now ).On the other hand it sure is nice not to have to carry out the starting paraphenalia!

One could argue that the full bypass would make it easier to put out a fire but I would rather not have a fire to begin with. At any rate, I have both types of JetCats in my fleet and that is the install method I am comfotable with at the moment.


Den Wichmann
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