GRT Sport EFIS Installation

We originally installed a GRT Sport to be a backup ot the Blue Mountain system. More recently we upgraded to a GRT Horizon HX dual-AHRS dual-screen primary system to replace the BMA, and traded the sport in. Here I’m installing the new GRT Sport EFIS as our backup/secondary display unit. My buddy Carlos works at […]

Flow Balance Testing of Fuel Injectors

Here is something else we ran into. After having trouble building RPM and having a very rough running engine that seemed to want to run very lean, and ran relatively well at idle, but not at WOT. We tested the fuel flow from the injectors and found the below. Very uneven flow. After removing the […]

Wings to Aircraft

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Interior Door Cover, Part I

The door cover panels are pre-molded by the factory. There’s a hump where the door handle comes through, but figuring out where exactly was a bit challenging, so I ended up needing to close up my first hole a bit. Also, stealing an idea from my buddy Andy, I used left-over foam with a light BID […]

Ready to Taxi

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Exhaust Augmentors

We’ve decided to create an augmented exhaust system for our plane (see Buffalo Forge paper on augmenters, also under “Downloads”). I foresee a couple of benefits from this. First, we don’t have the ‘rooster-tail’ that the factory exhaust creates by dumping out directly down from the cowling near the firewall. This creates a major disturbance to […]