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 […]

Beginning a cooling study

Our cooling is generally fine, but on hot days when we stay in the pattern, the CHT’s get warmer than I would like. Luckily we know Terry Schubert, of CSA fame, and he’s just the guy to give us some tips. So, we setup for him to come down with some aquarium hose, air stones, and we […]

Brett’s Factory Checkout

I blogged this too, but for folks that may not read that I’ll summarize here. I took the factory checkout from April 14 to 16, 2014. The course consisted of 5 hours of flight time and 3 hours of ground instruction. If you built the airplane, the ground school will be a bit dry, but […]

Spring Velocity Visit, 2014 Edition

So, I’m really, really late posting this, but it’s understandable since I just finished my trip to Florida. The Thursday before I left to get my factory flight training my buddy Andy called wanting to fly down for the weekend as we were forecast for great weather. This is what owning airplanes is about, so […]

Flying to breakfast with the Stockman’s

Bill and Terry Stockman’s standard elite fixed now has it’s new Garm G3X panel up and running, so we met them at Urbana’s Grimes field, home of the MERFI fly-in, for breakfast. It’s far enough to be a somewhat interesting flight, a bit over 20 minutes, but close enough to be fairly stress free. I’ll […]