{"id":13713,"date":"2016-12-08T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dg-flugzeugbau.de\/en\/?page_id=13713"},"modified":"2016-12-08T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:04:43","slug":"the-procedure-starting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dg-aviation.de\/en\/library\/the-procedure-starting","title":{"rendered":"The Procedure of Starting the Engine of a DG-800B \/ DG-808C"},"content":{"rendered":"

When driving your car, you\u0092ve come to expect it:
\nTurn the key \u0096 engine starts up, regardless of outside air temperature, humidity and density altitude.
\nUnfortunately, this cannot be realized quite as easily in our glider engines, even though we did give it a try. Specifically, there have been a few notable incidents of start up troubles leading to a complete failure of the drive belt.
\nThe following paragraphs are mean to capture accurately just what happens during the start up phase and we hope it will enable pilots to adjust their procedures to avoid troubles.
\nInstead of choke, glider engines use a primer, a valve that, when open, directly injects fuel into the air stream in the intake. The most primitive primers consist of a simple rubber ball. Our primers are electrical and controlled by the DG DEI engine control unit. The DEI uses the temperature of the engine coolant to control the primer. If the primer switch is on \u0093Auto\u0094, you don\u0092t have to do anything as two things happen sequentially:<\/p>\n