From: "Houlihan,Tim" <tim.houlihan@oce.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Europa-List: Battery position
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:40:35 +0100
">Is an external power source point worth having?<
If you don't an engine start with a flat aircraft battery will not be
possible as you cannot hand crank a Rotax."
Over the past three months I have spoken to two pilots who have hand started
their 912 equipped aircraft.
I truly believe both of them.
One of them found that the rising tide was a great incentive !!
He landed on a beach to assist another microlight. When he came to restart
the engine the battery was flat and the waves were only a few metres away.
So he hand started it and saved the day !
He tells me he had done this previously and was surprised when I told it
could not be done !!!
Tim Houlihan
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