REFLECTOR: Interesting Angles -- Fuel Venting & Prop Strike

[Brian Michalk]

How timely!

I am trying to figure out how to do some full power runs with the 
airplane at 19 degrees.

I'm SE/FG with Franklin/IVO.  At 10 deg, the prop touches the floor.  To 
get to 20 deg, I need to raise the wheels 23 inches, plus a bit for safety.

Why 19 degrees?  That's what I calculated to be my climbout on first 
flight.  Yesterday, I also added a vent loop that goes up along the ceiling.

On 11/27/2011 08:18 PM, Bob Jackson wrote:
>
> A little while back we were talking about how fuel is vented from the 
> Velocity in steep climb angles when the fuel in the front part of the 
> strake tank is higher than the vent loop normally routed to the top of 
> the inside of the engine bulkhead  I'm interested in this because we 
> periodically do smell a little fuel in the cockpit, and I think we are 
> smelling wisps of the vented fuel, coming back in the main gear leg holes.
>
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