test flight
I got a test flight in this evening. The thunderstorms broke (actually I was watching them only 20mi. away on the XM radar). There was an overcast ceiling at 10k’ so I took off at about 6:15pm. The new P-mag works. I didn’t venture very far from the airport. I did a little more power off stall testing. I also spent about 45min. flying a gps course from the Garmin 430 coupled through the efis. The autopilot didn’t disconnect once. Also, the wind indications looked correct the whole time.
Before my flight, I spent some quality time fabricating the mounts for the oxygen bottle. That is still in progress. One thing that I’m finding is that I still really need to commit to setting up the hangar to make part fabrication easier. I still have bench-top power tools sitting on the floor, no band-saw, etc. That makes some little tasks a real pain.
When I got back home, the new temp sensors from GRT had arrived. Maybe I’ll get those installed tomorrow.