PSC
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Preface by saying I've generally never seen my Warrior's oil temp get much over the 200-210 area until today.
I made a short 10 minute flight over to an area airport to pick up my instructor after he dropped off a plane. We loaded back up, taxied out (kind of long taxi, but not crazy) and set up for a IFR training mission. Run up went well, everything in the green. We lingered on the taxiway a bit to practice our IFR departure instructions and brief the flight, maybe 3-5 minutes at 1000 RPM all total. Departed, gauges in the green on the roll, climbed out and notice at 1000' AGL that my oil temp had spiked to pretty near redline. I mentioned it to my instructor, but I don't think he heard or processed what I said. Continued a climb to about 2500 AGL and I brought it up again, more insistently. We'd been climbing at 80 kts and pressures were in the green the entire time. Surface OAT was 94 at the time and given that we didn't get all that high, it wasn't a ton cooler at altitude.
We decided to level off and let the engine cool for a minute or two. After that didn't give us much results, we headed back to the home airport, no more than 10 nm away. I pulled the power back a bit and started a gradual 100 - 200 fpm descent, hoping to cool the engine a bit, but also retaining altitude should the fan stop turning. This worked ok, brought our temps back to the mid 200s. Landed without incident.
So my question is - is it possible that our time spent on the run-up area briefing our flight caused the engine temp to spike like that? Like I mentioned, everything was in the green on the take off roll.
I asked my mechanic and he suggested that might have been one of many culprits, but suggested that I give it another run in the pattern tomorrow after it's cooled down to see if it gets that high again.
Thoughts?
pictures to come in second post from phone.
I made a short 10 minute flight over to an area airport to pick up my instructor after he dropped off a plane. We loaded back up, taxied out (kind of long taxi, but not crazy) and set up for a IFR training mission. Run up went well, everything in the green. We lingered on the taxiway a bit to practice our IFR departure instructions and brief the flight, maybe 3-5 minutes at 1000 RPM all total. Departed, gauges in the green on the roll, climbed out and notice at 1000' AGL that my oil temp had spiked to pretty near redline. I mentioned it to my instructor, but I don't think he heard or processed what I said. Continued a climb to about 2500 AGL and I brought it up again, more insistently. We'd been climbing at 80 kts and pressures were in the green the entire time. Surface OAT was 94 at the time and given that we didn't get all that high, it wasn't a ton cooler at altitude.
We decided to level off and let the engine cool for a minute or two. After that didn't give us much results, we headed back to the home airport, no more than 10 nm away. I pulled the power back a bit and started a gradual 100 - 200 fpm descent, hoping to cool the engine a bit, but also retaining altitude should the fan stop turning. This worked ok, brought our temps back to the mid 200s. Landed without incident.
So my question is - is it possible that our time spent on the run-up area briefing our flight caused the engine temp to spike like that? Like I mentioned, everything was in the green on the take off roll.
I asked my mechanic and he suggested that might have been one of many culprits, but suggested that I give it another run in the pattern tomorrow after it's cooled down to see if it gets that high again.
Thoughts?
pictures to come in second post from phone.
