Originally posted by Flyfalcons
Why pay 50 bucks more for the same performance? My 65LA swings a 12x6 at 14K, in the first half gallon. After I finish the gallon I'm going to a 13x6. The engine will swing up to a 13x8.
Why exactly would an engine go dead stick during a hammer head? I don't understand why you feel the need to point out that you do this maneuver, since no engine I know has a tendency to die in that particular maneuver.
The 65LA has no bearings and a bleed carb, but throttle resolution is excellent and the power cannot be denied. So why pay 50 bucks more?
Looks like we are going to have to agree to disagree!
I mentioned a hammerhead because it's the manoeuvre I thought of that combines the engine leaning out on full throttle as it goes up, with a sudden chopping of the throttle in an attitude that was not used to tune the engine in the first place, followed by a big demand on a smooth transition into a higher throttle setting with the likelihood of fuel starvation becoming excessive fueling. In my book, that is subjecting the engine to changes, and it's changes that cause engine stoppages.
My 61FX has also not stopped in level constant speed flight!
Only today, I saw three dead sticks caused by, in two cases, tail slides, and the other case a hammerhead.
Are you sure you haven't seen an engine stop in extreme circumstances like those?
As for putting half a gallon through it (you imply that is all you have done so far), lets compare notes again when it's had 10 gallons through it.
David C.