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Originally Posted by cheesehawk
I think it's generally pretty good, you hear a few sputters, the noise dies out, with it being too rich, maybe a few backfires would be appropriate, as the timing would be off as the engine dies down.
Luthier had stated a long time ago that their records indicated the cutout should commence at 0.5g, but they reduced it to 0.1g as far as I can remember. I think somewhere between these would be a better compromise.
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This has been debated in this forum at length. As far as at what G does the cut begin at that is documented at 0.1G i.e a 0.9G reduction from 1G flight...i.e. getting close to 0G*. The RAE flew a bunch of instrumented aeroplanes to determine onset thresholds as part of a study aimed at curing the issue. Here is a page from the report. Its available in the UK National Archives as AVIA 13/234 :
This complete document is with the Devs.
[*Edit replaced -1.0G with 0G]