Congratulations Dave;
I'm sure you must be feeling immensely satisfied right now. This is great
seeing so many first rotary flights this year.
About your cooling. I find that after taxi to position and take off, my
temps often reach 205 on climb out, but on subsequent touch and goes the
temps drop so much during descent that I only reach 190 on subsequent climb
outs. However today I ventured north to a short grass strip for my first
rough field landings. I was doing full stop landings then backtracking which
required more power to move through the grass (mowing tall grass:-). I found
that temps were then reaching 210F during climb out. It was a heck of a lot
of fun to land there. So your temps sound pretty damn good. As you begin to
use more boost you can certainly expect more heat, but you should be able to
manage it.
BTW, I notice that you report your temps in Celsius first. Most Americans
avoid metric like the plague. I I figured the reason Tracy didn't provide
other units on the EM2 is so that I would stop reporting my temps in Celsius
:-)

S. Todd Bartrim  (11.1 hours flying this weekend)
Turbo 13B
RV-9endurance
C-FSTB
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