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Today we flew for 6.3 hrs and everything was great
again. We calibrated a few items including the electronic governor for the IVO
prop. What a difference that makes. Also calibrated the PSS AOA and the Dynon
AOA and they each are phenomenal tools. The engine is running great with no
major issues at all. I do have a little tweaking to do on the low MAP table, but
nothing urgent. Then only problem that I had today was that my Sony Vaio laptop
doesn't seem to like high altitude. I have a small Vaio and have built a place
for it to mount easily and use it to display Jeppenson's FlightMap in-flight GPS
program. It works great until 10,300' where it would then display the blue
screen and then reboot. After the 4th time it refused to reboot again so now I'm
forced to use the system recovery disc and wipe the disc clean. I hate to think
about all the files that I said I would back-up soon... :-(. My old laptop still
works fine(using it now) so maybe I'll try it tomorrow.
My EWP's are now back in a series configuration. I'd like
to experiment further with a parallel system, but right now I want to get my
hours done so I went back to something that I know works fine. The biggest
change I made was to my fuel system where most of my previous problems were. I
completely removed the header tank ansd all of it's assosiated plumbing. The new
system is a returnless EFI and it has worked flawlessly now for 12.5 hours of
engine running. I couldn't be more pleased with the current system.
My temps are fine, but in extended steep climbs the
coolant temp slowly creeps up to 210F. I first noticed this last fall after I
had my hail encounter that damaged the cooling fins on my rads. I spent much
time straightening the cooling fins but I doubt that I'll ever get the fins back
to straight enough to regain full efficiency. I'll have to stop by the wreckers
soon and get another good set of cores to get ready for a quick
swap.
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