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Great to hear things went well, Chris
When I decided to leave the pattern, I plotted a course over as many airfields as I could on the way out to my test area and climbed as quickly as the power/heat curve permitted. I recall on one of those early flights, up around 8000 MSL and just in a tight circle around a turning point with one wing up in the sky and the other pointed at my turning point - the engine dies.
Say WHAT? Hastily pulling the wings level, the roar of the engine thankfully returned - when one wing tank is low on fuel one should probably not make continuous turns with feeding from the down wing tank. Switch tanks and went home to change underwear.
Point is - its easy to get so enthralled by your creation as to forget some basics {:>)
Whenever its time to leave the nest, you'll know. Don't leave until you feel comfortable doing so.
Ed
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From: "Chris Barber" <cbarber@texasattorney.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 3:52 PM
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Crickets....
I so dislike when this list goes silent.
Phase One report: After addressing a clogged fuel filter (ultimately removing it....very small passages in the screen) I flew again on Thursday. Just a quick hop around the patch. This is sometime more an issue than it would seem at a towered field with heavy military/NASA traffic under Class B.
No squawks and nice data log with the latest Dynon 5.1 update. Along with "Clouds Ahoy" ya get a pretty nice picture off the flight and parameters. This was only the ninth flight but was more fun as I seem to be getting things sorted. Still haven't left the pattern :-)
Chris
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