Re: [Flightgear-devel] piston aircraft pre-flight engine runup

2007-10-05 Thread David Megginson
On 05/10/2007, drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. I've actually had the pleasure of pushing a crate with a shonky donk back to the hanger. There is an alternative, sometimes. If the plug isn't completely dead but just misfiring a lot, you can often clear the lead by doing a high-power, lean

Re: [Flightgear-devel] piston aircraft pre-flight engine runup

2007-10-05 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi Drew I just posted a patch on the JSBSim list to model this. I've been missing this for a long time. So at least aircraft that use the JSBSim FDM should see this feature soon ;-) Greetings, Torsten In real life flying of the Cessna 172/152/150, you run the engine up to 1700 rpm then

Re: [Flightgear-devel] piston aircraft pre-flight engine runup

2007-10-05 Thread Detlef Faber
Hellop drew, Am Freitag, den 05.10.2007, 22:20 +1000 schrieb drew: In real life flying of the Cessna 172/152/150, you run the engine up to 1700 rpm then check the health of each ignition system by switching off the left then right magnetos in turn and watch for a corresponding drop in rpm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] piston aircraft pre-flight engine runup

2007-10-05 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Hi Drew I just posted a patch on the JSBSim list to model this. I've been missing this for a long time. So at least aircraft that use the JSBSim FDM should see this feature soon ;-) Greetings, Torsten Well, I don't know what happened. I can't find any hint that we ever added this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] piston aircraft pre-flight engine runup

2007-10-05 Thread drew
Thanks Detlef, Yes, indeed, they both do. These are two very nice models I haven't flown much. Regards, Drew On Saturday 06 October 2007 03:08:58 Detlef Faber wrote: Hellop drew, Am Freitag, den 05.10.2007, 22:20 +1000 schrieb drew: In real life flying of the Cessna 172/152/150, you run

Re: [Flightgear-devel] piston aircraft pre-flight engine runup

2007-10-05 Thread drew
Thank you Jon and Torsten, I've been very impressed with the c172p and the c150. Simulating the mags makes an already excellent model just about perfect! Regards, Drew On Saturday 06 October 2007 07:10:14 Jon S. Berndt wrote: Hi Drew I just posted a patch on the JSBSim list to model