REFLECTOR: Franklin in SLC -- culprit identified

[Andreas Christou]

At 05:55 PM 10/10/04, you wrote:
>Dead left mag.  They are both supposed to be
>impulse mags, so as I said above, I'm not sure why it
>made it *that* hard to start.  We're going to pull it
>tonight and hopefully have a new one on tomorrow morning
>when we don't have to pay $50 to get the parts guy to
>come in.  :-)
>
>I've had flight instructors who suggested doing a mag check
>*after* every flight as well as before each flight, and it always
>seemed gratuitous to me.  I guess now I'm a convert.  ;-)

It is essential to do a mag check after every flight before shutdown, while 
at idle, so you know the p-leads are still attached. Unless you do this, it 
would be folly to turn the prop by hand to check cylinder compression prior 
to next starting the engine.

Andreas