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Tracy Crook wrote:

> Finally got quasi-legal VFR conditions for a short flight today and 
> declared total success for the auto-program mode on the EC2-EM2 
> combination.
>  
> Test started with the all zero default MAP table on the EC2 (no 
> programming at all).   After a 12 minute ground run (slowly increasing 
> throttle from idle to about 16" MAP) followed by a 35 minute flight, 
>  the EC2 was programmed better than I have been able to do after years 
> of manual tweaking.  Absolutely Magic!  Very cool watching it happen 
> on the EM2 screen too.
>  
> Tracy  (Miller time)


See. I told ya'.  You took 130hrs.  Steve took 13.  And I'll be napping 
after 1.3.  That's an hour to verify the cooling, and 20min to tune the 
engine 8*)

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