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Engine Monitoring
 

Post flight analysis of engine operation for...

Ö  Trend Monitoring
Ö  Maintenance Trouble-Shooting
Ö  Flight Tests
Ö  Warranty Documentation


Engine Monitoring provides a useful tool for post flight engine diagnosis as well as a permanent record of engine operation. Engine parameters can be stored, graphed and printed out for analysis as necessary. Keep copies for trend monitoring, or print out and hand to your mechanic to trouble-shoot an engine problem.

Any exceedance of an operating parameter (temperatures, pressures, RPM) is highlighted on the graphs. Any parameter entering the caution range will change to yellow; any parameter exceeding a red-line will change to red. Limitations are user-programmable. Graphs can display an entire flight, or be zoomed in to show a segment of interest in great detail.

Preprogrammed graphs display key engine parameters along with their relevant environmental factors to aid diagnosis. For example, high Cylinder Head Temperatures (CHT's) can be caused by mechanical problems OR operational factors. When diagnosing a high CHT condition, it's important for your mechanic to know to what extent high power settings, low airspeed, low fuel flow and/or high air temperatures were contributing to the problem. Our CHT graph does exactly that. Cylinder Head Temperatures for each cylinder are graphed together with the readings for engine percent of power, airspeed, fuel flow and air temperature. This one color graph lets you and your mechanic examine the EXACT operational conditions involved, thus greatly improving diagnostic capability. Similar graphs are included for Exhaust Gas Temperature (EGT), Oil Temperature and Pressure, and RPM and Manifold Pressure .

  
Exhaust Gas Temperature

 


Exhaust Gas Temperature
Same flight as above showing zoom in capability

 


Cylinder Head Temperature

 


Oil Temperature and Pressure

 


RPM and Manifold Pressure