Last weekend we also were getting used to the new pitch trim spring. Elizabeth is sure yet if she wants to slow the trim motor down or not (our buddy Andy did on his with a resistor), but we did test the front seat loading up to 500 lbs. with good results. It runs out […]
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On the last trip to Kalamazoo our GRT HX system began acting up. Elizabeth is starting to have flashbacks to flying with the Blue Mountain EFIS, which is not a good thing. To be fair, I’m not convinced it’s their fault yet, but it’s disconcerting when your display goes blank in flight. I’m feeling better […]
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My family was in town for the holiday, and we’d promised them rides last year. This time the airplane was up and running, though the heat was nearly unbearable. As it was, there were only a couple of takers, which was just as well given the conditions (no point cooking Beth’s brain too long), so […]
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We told you a few weeks ago we got our building buddy Jerry checked out by John from the factory in our plane. This weekend he and Linda are going to fly the Fox to see our other buddy Andy Millin. He just finished his 40 hour fly-off, and together with our other friend Mark will be trying […]
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I’ll try to get a picture of the new pitch trim spring, but it’s just like the last one except maybe twice or a little better as think, and much much stiffer. This is literally a half and hour change, just pull your current spring and use it as a guide to drill the holes […]
Read MoreApparently the best kept secret in the Velocity community is that pretty much all of the XL’s need more pitch trim than the standard spring provides. We’d been dealing with this ever since our last (panel and interior) upgrade, where at pattern speeds the pitch trim ran out on final and we had to hold […]
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