SkyHog
Touchdown! Greaser!
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2005
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- Castle Rock, CO
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Everything Offends Me
But its a very disturbing feeling to be in the middle of the flare and see the propeller stop spinning out front of the airplane.
I was doing touch and goes today, and on one of the landings, my engine quit on me. I coasted off the runway and past the hold short line, and the engine started back up. As I taxiied back towards the hangar, the engine quit on me again. Both times it happened when the throttle was pulled to idle.
I started up again and got almost to the hangar and the engine quit again. At this time, I gave up, secured the airplane and walked to the hangar to grab the tow bar and manually tug my plane to the hangar (good lord my plane is heavy).
After talking to one of the other owners, we're thinking one of the mags went bad. I didn't even think about trying the mags separately, so I don't know. We're gonna have someone look at it tomorrow. Its a good thing it didn't happen in the air tho. Whew!
I was doing touch and goes today, and on one of the landings, my engine quit on me. I coasted off the runway and past the hold short line, and the engine started back up. As I taxiied back towards the hangar, the engine quit on me again. Both times it happened when the throttle was pulled to idle.
I started up again and got almost to the hangar and the engine quit again. At this time, I gave up, secured the airplane and walked to the hangar to grab the tow bar and manually tug my plane to the hangar (good lord my plane is heavy).
After talking to one of the other owners, we're thinking one of the mags went bad. I didn't even think about trying the mags separately, so I don't know. We're gonna have someone look at it tomorrow. Its a good thing it didn't happen in the air tho. Whew!