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People who own Jabiru Motors have put up with  with a lot of crap over the years. It's really not fair. . 2 strokes have by far the Highest failure rates and some rare old engines would be worse still.  Flown with due regard for the risk and a suitable choice of  location it's all manageable. A lot of the stats were due to management. running out of fuel is seemingly becoming more common. This comment is general, not directly referencing this incident. Nev

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That was MY jab until a few years ago! Never had a thing go wrong, always started first go, purred like a kitten. Sold it because I'm the one that's likely to have an engine failure. 🤪

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I've personally had several Jabiru engine failures over the years.

Calmly identified the problem, selected fuel ON, restarted, then resumed my taxi to the runup bay.

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Me too. The engine was running perfectly & I shut it down but could not get it to start again. I did all the trouble checks and found that the mags had to be on before it would run. Who woulda thought.

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well it was a gen 4. it would not restart on the ground. hopefully they will post what happened when they find out.

 

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6 hours ago, 440032 said:

I've personally had several Jabiru engine failures over the years.

Calmly identified the problem, selected fuel ON, restarted, then resumed my taxi to the runup bay.

 

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