Reply to "Fire Extinguisher...."

If you ever douse a carburator with a fire extinguisher you'll be sorry. If you ever get a crb fire from general flooding .....(not from fuel leak or fuel line breakage!!!!)...Just keep cranking the starter.

Years ago when I was flying twin engine Cessna's, (close to 20 years ago) I was on a charter trip. I dropped off the passengers. The typical starting procedure was to open the throttle and prime the hell out of it. This was quite a bit different then the hot procedure.

After a long day and several stops, I primmed the damn thing hot out of habbit. I fired it up and the entire cowling engulfed in flames.

The guy next to the fence was jumping up and down running his hand across his neck as if to say "shut it down, shut it dow!". I just kept cranking, killed the mixture and open the throttle to full. It started to fire and as soon as it did it sucked the entire flame front back in the carb.

I went back and told my boss and he laughed..."really get's your attention when it does that doesn't it!"

Gary