Big day today, not only did we talk to Dave Bertram about taking my baby flying again soon, but we ran the engine for the first time sine our incident. That’s a really big deal, but we could have had a catastrophe too. We weren’t planning on running the engine *quite* yet, but due to […]
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Obsolete: We are currently running without an air filter as it restricted engine RPM. We’ve built the air filter box by making a male mold with some blue foam large enough to clear the filter media and flange out. The filter will have AL plates on both sides so we can clamp it air tight. The […]
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So I’ve had a little bit of trouble with these Panasonic batteries not having quite enough guts for some of the panel testing I do. So I decided to try a larger capacity battery, in the same class, but this one is a 7.2 amp hour version. This should give us pretty good capacity in […]
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So I’m a bit OCD when it comes to some things. There are some things that I’ve done to the hangar that are just for me. Sure they have some usefullness, but they just make it feel “professional” to me. To that end, I’ve labelled the field’s frequencies on both sides of the pilot’s lounge/shop […]
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Our new Trio Pro autopilot has ‘auto-trim’, so in addition to wiring it up to power, ground, and the servos the pitch servo has an output to the pitch trim actuator There are a couple of different ways for this to interact with the pilot, either you can install a dual pole dual throw switch to select […]
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So, I’m running behind on updates, but I want to recap the work completed on my “Spring Break”. We mounted the wings and torque them to flight standards, mounted and connected the radios and instruments and ran through the initial EIS and GRT EFIS calibrations, sewed up our winglet weather ‘socks‘, reinstalled all of the hardware on […]
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