Long range flight with rear engine only

[Paul Sharp]

I did a precautionary shutdown of my rear engine coming back to SLC from Montana one day. Full load of fuel, 3 passengers plus luggage. Of course I had burned off about an hour of fuel before I saw the engine CHT start to rise.

My plane is a 1967T model. I was at 16,500 feet at the time. After getting over the mountains, I let it down to about 10,000. It held just fine and I feel quite confident that I could have neld the higher altitude had there been a reason. This was in November if I remember correctly.

Anyway it was an NBD (no big deal), and I could have started up the engine again had there been a need. I flew on in to Idaho Falls, did some checking, and found that it was just a bad gage. Fired 'em both up and went on our way home.