ORIGINAL: CGRetired
Hold on, there, Witterings. Hours of tuning and adjusting? Hmm... with the right engine and prop combination (and you have to do that with electrics too.. select the right prop for the job), perhaps 20 minutes (two tanks) initially to 'break in the engine' then about 20 seconds after that doing a proper tune, and you're off and flying. So, come on, don't over exaggerate like that... because it just is not true
CGr.
CGRetired,
As I said don't get me wrong I love them but I have seen many not just one person, come down to the club, spend 3 hrs tinkering with their engine before packing their things up and going home without even having flown.
The number that stand, do the tests in the pitts, hold the plane upright and apply throttle, put it on the runway, go to take off and it stalls and it's back to the pitts again - you normally only get to see them do it 4 times before they give up !!!!!!
Yes there are some that also come down and don't have a fraction of the problems that others do but I'd stil say that overall they have less reliability and more time working on the engine than electrics - some even enjoy that as much as the flying but personally I'd rather just fly !!!
As I said before it's funny the number of die hards and we're talking 30+ yrs of flying who are now flying electrics as well for the very reasons I've mentioned.