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    Anybody use the Slick Start?

    My understanding is that when the starter is engaged, only one P-lead is normally grounded. Adding a Slick Start would not ground the second mag, but would augment it. To the other poster, that is why sometimes an engine will not start until the starter is disengaged, so that both mags are...
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    Anybody use the Slick Start?

    He should have checked the SS unit to make sure the fuse was not burned out. I have been very pleased with the installation of my SS. Several IAs I knopw if use it on their own planes, especially big bore Lycs. The unit has made a big difference on hot starting my IO -550B. We sent both...
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    IFR at night in single engine airplane?

    Low IMC, day or night, like 1/2SM FG OVC001 for hundreds of miles in all directions till gives me a pucker factor. Flying over the Smoky Mountains with only the top of Mt. Mitchell sticking up through the overcast, with clouds at ground level, was my last trip under these conditions. All...
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    Snippy ATC

    If this bothers a controller , then there is nothing you can do about it. Stuff changes all the time. We all get last minute runway changes, approach changes etc and we are expected to deal with it. True professionals will deal with whatever is needed in a professional manner, no matter...
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