Flying
I finally got a chance to do some more flying. I did three flights on Sunday. I’m back to some pretty conservative flight durations and distances in order to check the ignitions often. So far so good. I flew up in a large hole in the towering clouds and went up to eight thousand feet. This was the first chance I’ve had to experiment with wide open throttle in cruise. I also used the opportunity to do a little max climb rate testing now that I am very familiar with my temps and how to manage them. This thing really will climb like crazy if you put in all the power and point it up. I’m using much lower power settings in climb to manage temperatures better. Especially on initial climb-out.
I got the nose wheel fairing on it and got some test time on that. It was still intact after landing and no adverse effects in flight. All good.
I haven’t had any occurrences of the autopilot disconnecting from GPSS guidance since I’ve been using the Garmin 430 as main gps input into the efis.
Tanya came out to the hangar (first time in quite some time) and did cleanup duty. We have a bit of an invasion of crickets. They die in the hangar and start to stink pretty bad in such quantities. Tanya and I agreed that her efforts qualified for “Dirty Jobs”.