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Engines running hot is pilot error. Easy to check now that most owners have engine monitors, just ask to see the logs. I know mechanics...

First, let me congratulate the OP on his excellent taste. Those planes would have been $30-40K back before Covid. You need to go...

Well, steps 1-3 flood the engine, so then you HAVE to use the flooded start procedure. I suspect you & I are doing the same thing...

Your Lycoming technique is for a flooded engine, why not just try the don’t touch anything approach which works the great majority of time?

I like flying from around South Haven to Ludington about 50' off the water at 150kts after the beach (and bird) season is over.

You made the right call. The issue was probably the recent maintenance, but you did not know that for sure.

Absolutely! Yeah, maybe it was what you thought it was. Or maybe some debris from the maintenance found its way further into the fuel...

huckster, you did exactly what you should have done. pan pan, mayday, and declaring an emergency is something I just discussed at a...

@Huckster79 you did not know what you know now. Don’t let your experience here make you second guess the next time something else...

Thank you, and I really couldn’t agree more. My frustration with myself was not running her on the ground on both tanks. So common...

I declared Pan, pan, pan earlier this year. Not sure in the second why I chose pan instead of mayday. The situation turned into a fart...

As an airport firefighter myself, among other things, we would prefer you ask for the help. We are here to assist and would rather be...

For me, declaring frees up mental bandwidth.

I just thought of something else that came up in my previous thread, and I think it's what a few of you here are hinting at. A few...

I tend to agree, however, in the heat of a crisis, there may be assistance that could help that you didn't think about. Getting a brain...