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hillstw(at)jhill.biz
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:16 am Post subject: carburetor ice question

Arksey:

  

 Hope you are in warm Florida, enjoying the Kolb.  Did you  get the engine stoppage figured out?

 It is very cold and snowy here--about 10-12" on the  ground.  --no time to be flying.

  

 Best regards.

  

 Jimmy Hill

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pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:48 am Post subject: carburetor ice question

engine quit when I throttled back to land.  >>

  

 Hi,

  

 perhaps someone with more experience will kick in  on this but I think that OPENING the throttle will often clear an ice  blockage.

  

 Cheers

  

 Pat

  

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Arksey(at)aol.com
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject: carburetor ice question

Hi Jimmy,

    Yes we got to Florida Wed. evening before Thanksgiving, hauled  the Firestar down here in a enclosed trailer. hauled it with my olds van, worked  ok. The trailer was built for a firestar but with a 2 blade prop so i had to  remove the 3 blade prop to get it in the trailer....trailer worked fine and  pulled good, but when i hit uneven pavement it would rock back and forth like a  baby buggy....I intend to put shocks on it to stop that action...It was a bit of  work to haul but if the flying down here this winter is enjoyable I will do it  again...   

    Regard the carburetor ice, I am sure that is what the problem  was and I intend to look into carb heat, it was ideal conditions for it and as I  fly whenever i can I guess i better have carb heat to take care of it....I would  not like to be over hostile country and have that happen. I sure have had  fun flying the plane this last  summer and am very happy with it.  I  am near Sebring Florida and you should think about coming down for the sport  category exp at the sebring airport the 1st part of Jan. and I will show you  around the area and for sure try and make Sun and Fun...I hope to be there with  the plane and camp in the ultra light section...

      I will be back to flying down here in a week or  so...been fishing some already.

         

 Jim Swan Firestar ll  Michigan

  

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hillstw(at)jhill.biz
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:01 am Post subject: carburetor ice question

Jim:

  

 What is the sport category expo?  When is it?  I am not familar  with it.

 No doubt your weather is nicer than our just now.  We have had a real  big winter storm; snow is melting off now, but will take a while, as we had  about a foot.

  

 Regards.

  

 Jimmy

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George Alexander

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: SW Florida

Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:51 am Post subject: carburetor ice question

Jimmy et al:

  

 Link to the Expo  site....

  

 http://www.sport-aviation-expo.com/

  

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 George  Alexander

 http://gtalexander.home.att.net

  

  



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 Jim:

  

 What is the sport category expo?  When is it?  I am not familar  with it.

 No doubt your weather is nicer than our just now.  We have had a real  big winter storm; snow is melting off now, but will take a while, as we had  about a foot.

  

 Regards.

  

 Jimmy

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kiwimick

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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:52 am Post subject: carburetor ice question

Pat, you are correct, briskly opening the throttle  will often break the ice away by the rapid increase of air flow.

 Incidentally I think I may have fell victum to ice  yesterday while conducting a airworthiness test on a HKS powered X-Air. During  climb out at approx 250' a sudden reduction in power caused me to make a forced  landing into a very soft field resulting in a wrecked aircraft. I initially  thought that it was fuel starvation, however a glance at the press guage showed  it to be fine, no carb heater fitted to these engines and as they offer poor  performance on a 2 seat aircraft anyway there is little room for loss of power  at all.

  

 Mike  

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pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject: carburetor ice question

Pat, you are correct, briskly opening the throttle  will often break the ice away >>

  

 Thank you Mike. Glad to have corroboration and  thanks for the `always on` carb. heat fitted to my Xtra.

  

 Sorry to hear of the crunch. Hope you are OK. There  was so much wind on the charts I thought everyone in the UK was  grounded.

  

 Found your truck in the lorry park at the NEC  without TOO much trouble and managed to load the new wing into my hired van  which luckily had a small space above the drivers cab This  enabled us to  travel home with closed rear doors. It would have been very  uncomfortable otherwise as we hit high winds and and pelting hail from the tail  end of the front going through.

  

 Hope you had a succesful show and sold lots of  Kolbs and Sonex. Mean looking beast.

  

 What did you think about the French rear prop  driven tear drop just inside the entrance.? I thought Jim Bede had come to town. One guy looking at that thin  high speed wing said `A Free funeral with every kit` I tended to agree with him.  No one seemed to have any performance figures for it on the stand but it was  nicely finished..

  

 I have advised Mike that the exhaust will arrive  direct from you.

  

 All the best

  

 Pat

  

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