Half joking, but is there really anyone who is rich enough to operate an aircraft piston engine without an engine analyser?
P.S. …or without a Dynavibe gizmo to balance the prop?
Jacko wrote:
but is there really anyone who is rich enough to operate an aircraft piston engine without an engine analyser?Most Rotax pilots
P.S. …or without a Dynavibe gizmo to balance the prop?
O200 owners.
I’ve never flown a plane with an engine analyzer.
I could without the slightest trouble fly my A-65 powered plane without a tachometer, or any other engine instrumentation. It would have no measurable effect on fuel consumption, which I can regardless afford quite easily at $20/hr of 100LL… Unless I were to fly 200 hrs a month
As described in my post above, I could fly my O-320 powered CS prop plane with no tachometer, because the engine speed control is digital and accurate. This makes the tach mostly redundant except that its the only way I know airframe hours from one year to the next.