Summer time is meeting time...

Flying across France to the yearly French Avid Flyer Pilot meeting I added another 7h30 to the engine and I'm now approaching 60 spotless hours.
I know, I know, it is nothing and it is still way to early to judge the reliability... However, seeing other identical planes take off with their Rotax 582 or (strong but heavy) 912 I'm comforted in my choice of Victor 2 - I can easily out climb them all with my low weight and high power!



For Avid Flyer owners in France...
As you can see the French Avid Flyer association (l'APA) is still going strong. The French Avid Flyer Yahoo Group has been reactivated and you can sign up here.

Back to square one…

Slightly exaggerated illustration...

After my last flight (3 weeks ago) I had not only closed the fuel tap on the firewall but also let the engine run dry.
Yesterday I went out to the field to prepare the plane for a longer flight next weekend, I removed the spark plugs to make sure they were clean, re-gap etc.

2 spark plugs (one per cylinder) were overflowing with oil, the 2 others just full of oil… I would not have been able to start.

While the fuel tap improves the situation it does not eliminate the problem, nor does fuel tap and running the engine dry...

So what about the quantity of oil? I have not measured the quantity but estimate it to be a little less than a teaspoon – and I don’t know if there is more oil in the engine… A teaspoon is 5 ml and with 2% oil this would represent ¼ liter mixture, or the consumption for less than 1.5 minutes.

Knowing that similar problems on other engines have been resolved by using longer spark plugs (to prevent the excess oil from running in to the spark plug) I have asked Simonini for advice.