It seems to be a never ending fight to keep Mr. Mooney flying. I spoke with our mechanic Ray today about the engine roughness we experienced Saturday. He very quickly decided that it must have been lead from the fuel getting stuck in one of the spark plugs causing it to foul. This seemed to be consistent with what it felt like when it happened and I asked him what he thought we should do to prevent it from happening again. He suggested that we replace the spark plugs with iridium spark plugs which spark "hotter" and would prevent the engine from fouling both on the air and on the ground. Of course there's a catch, these plugs are $50 each and the engine takes 8 of them! I did a little bit more reading about them and it sounds like they're worth having, not to mention they should last much longer than traditional ones.
We should have the new plugs in the plane in the next couple of days and hopefully it'll be the last of the in flight fouling problems.
This weekend I'm going to be flying up to Santa Cruz on Sunday with a friend's parents so that they can watch her play in a powderpuff sorority football game. It should be interesting to say the least!
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