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Thanks Ed. As always, sage advice. Sent from my iPhone 5 On Feb 9, 2013, at 17:23, "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com> wrote: > 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 > > -------------------------------------------------- > 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 >> >> Sent from my iPhone 5 >> -- >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ >> Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2013.0.2897 / Virus Database: 2639/6087 - Release Date: 02/07/13 > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html