Robert Ryan
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This is going to sound super cheap but what’s the fastest way to warmup a IO-360?
This morning I did the startup, taxi, run up and still needed 5 extra minutes of running to get the engine warm enough to take off. The requirement is the needle is in the green of the temp gauge before takeoff. Well that’s like $14 of rental time on the 172 and I’m not taking any shortcuts. It was about 34f at the time and had been in the 20’s earlier in the morning.
While waiting after run up I leaned the mixture about an inch and put the RPMs at about 1100 hoping this would give a faster warmup than just idle. That logic is more based on what I’ve seen in boats.
This morning I did the startup, taxi, run up and still needed 5 extra minutes of running to get the engine warm enough to take off. The requirement is the needle is in the green of the temp gauge before takeoff. Well that’s like $14 of rental time on the 172 and I’m not taking any shortcuts. It was about 34f at the time and had been in the 20’s earlier in the morning.
While waiting after run up I leaned the mixture about an inch and put the RPMs at about 1100 hoping this would give a faster warmup than just idle. That logic is more based on what I’ve seen in boats.