A prominant difference we as Rotax flier experience with Rotax 4 cycle compared to pilots in many conventional aircraft is
(a) we don't have carb heat deal with, yet don't seem to have carb icing issues
(b) we don't have mixture controls to adjust for altitude.
I think I understand "a" (but any education on that welcome anyway.)
But don't understand how a CV carb is automatically adjusting mixture for altitude changes.
Anyone know of a good explaintion article or animation or video on how CV carbs adjust mixtue for altitude? I found some videos on youtube on CV carbs but they really didn't cover how altitude/mixture compensation occurs (either that or it just went over or under my brain ;) ).
Also curious how well the automatic mixture adjustment works compared to a hopefully-properly-operated traditional manual-mixture-adjustment system on, say, lycomings?
(I see that at least one vendor sells a aftermarket mixture control system add-on for the 912,
and curious about that, but will post that in a separate post here.)
Al
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(a) we don't have carb heat deal with, yet don't seem to have carb icing issues
(b) we don't have mixture controls to adjust for altitude.
I think I understand "a" (but any education on that welcome anyway.)
But don't understand how a CV carb is automatically adjusting mixture for altitude changes.
Anyone know of a good explaintion article or animation or video on how CV carbs adjust mixtue for altitude? I found some videos on youtube on CV carbs but they really didn't cover how altitude/mixture compensation occurs (either that or it just went over or under my brain ;) ).
Also curious how well the automatic mixture adjustment works compared to a hopefully-properly-operated traditional manual-mixture-adjustment system on, say, lycomings?
(I see that at least one vendor sells a aftermarket mixture control system add-on for the 912,
and curious about that, but will post that in a separate post here.)
Al
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