In-Flight Throttle Failure-What To Do?
in 912 / 914 Technical Questions
12 years ago
I think that many know that the 912 can run very rough when the carburetors are out of synchronization by even a relatively small amount. It does not take much to have these engines feel as if they might come off of the engine mounts or even stop running. The other night I was thinking about this behavior and wondering what would happen if I was flying along and had one of the throttles break? Talk about an out of synchronization condition! What would the correct action be for the unlucky pilot? If the carbs were set-up as Rotax recommends to go full-on I guess the thing to do would be to go to full throttle in an attempt to keep the engine in synchronization but I would bet that most pilot’s would do the opposite and pull the throttle off when the failure occurred. It seems to me that this would be a catastrophe in the making and might well stop the engine or worse. If the aircraft set-up was to have the throttle go to idle I doubt that you could go to full power and would have a lot of trouble staying in the air with both carb in sync at idle or relatively near to it. I wonder what folks are instructed to do by their instructors or what recommendations are given to pilots for this situation by the various LSA manuals? Ideas and comments?
