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 […]

MidWest Velocity Fly-in 2014

The MidWest Canard Fly-in was pretty much a rain-out this year, with 600-800′ ceilings and off of on showers, though Drew Chaplin (Cozy builder from Fort Wayne, In) and his crew did manage to fly in, but we had several local Velocity folks join us for breakfast. Of interest, though, you can see Hugh Dunn […]

First takeoff in N44VF

Elizabeth and I went flying together this weekend, and she let me handle the preflight, take-off, and about 45 minutes of flying from the right seat. We had a stationary front right over us, though, so there was a NOTAM for ‘moderate turbulence’ below 8,000′ and gusty winds, so I didn’t get any landings in. […]

Getting ready for Instrument Flight

I think I’m going to get my IFR ticket this year. My instructor Pete has talked with a local examiner about giving the check ride in our Velocity, and we’re good there. I’ve also started an IFR subscription to the Seattle Avonics data for the GRT HX we have in the airplane. Below are some screenshots, but […]

Transition Training Update 5

Signed off and home now. It was a great, but very busy week for us (Pete my instructor and I). We drove straight through on Sunday to get to Sebastian from Cincinnati by midnight, started ground school on Monday along with Pier (a potential Velocity buyer), flying twice on Monday, once on Tuesday (Pier was […]