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Old 11-02-2006 | 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by ToiletDuck

Anywho I started to go through the procedure and when I hit the key it did nothing. I tried it several times and nothing. I then just did what I do in a twin and that's nose it over for around 115kts and got it spinning again to recover. It didn't hit me till on the ground that perhaps I had to take the key and move it to the off position before trying to start it from the "both" position. To "reset" it perhaps? I'm no mechanic. Just thinking out on that one. Plane ended up having an issue that once the wings got so cold at the higher altitudes that there was enough play in the rivets that it leaked the fuel out of the left tank. The indicators apparently were not working well.
Maybe you should have primed the engine then turned the key. You can just use the throttle instead of the primer for priming, it's the same thing.
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