Temperature Guide

[Pursuivant]

Good points all.

I was assuming that engine temperature sensors actually measured something like cylinder head temperature.

Measurements for oil temperature, coolant temperature, carburetor temperature a specific to the particular aircraft and don't translate between different types (sometimes not even different models of the same airplane).

And, God only knows where those sensors were placed. The same thermocouple placed at different locations within a cooling system might record very different temperatures.