Flying to the EAA974 BBQ

Not a big update for this weekend, I’m still fighting a cold, so I didn’t do too much, but we did have our annual cookout at the chapter hangar, and I did fly Elizabeth and I over to KHAO for it. It was the first time that Elizabeth let me fully pilot the airplane. That […]

Flying with Dave Bertram

This morning I needed 5 hours dual for our insurance, now I need 3 thanks to our good friend Dave Bertram. He was passing through and agree to go fly with me to get a few of my hours knocked out. It’s been a long week, and I’m tired and losing my voice to a […]

A long day’s flight – Flying with John Abraham

I think I mentioned that our insurance company wanted me to get more time (10 hours dual) before they would cover me as PIC. That’s more than I would’ve expected, having completed the factory training already, but I did want to get some transition in our plane anyway, so it wasn’t a big lay-on. To […]

Getting Insurance

I’m still trying to get some transition flying in our airplane, and now it’s more important as the insurance company has decided that – in addition to factory training – they want me to get 10 more hours of dual instruction before they will cover me as PIC. I’m working all of my options, but […]

Terry Schubert Visits to talk engine cooling

Terry Schubert was kind enough to come down and spend the day looking at our engine plenum, baffling, and NACA ducts to see if he could help us understand our cooling performance better. I’ve had a digital manometer for some time, but I didn’t think it was working. I’m a pump guy at work, and […]

Fixing Squawks

We’ve had a couple of squawks I’ve wanted to deal with for a bit, well, at least one, Cylinder 3’s EGT had gone dead. That turned out to be just a loose wire, though I replaced it anyway. Second, I wanted to upgrade our air oil separator to the AntiSplat based on recommendations from our friends, which […]