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Great to hear about the performance! Wow!
3000 fpm and UP at that{:>). Sounds like you are getting the
little bird debugged just great.
Ed Anderson
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 7:15
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] 3000 fpm :-)
(unofficially)
Greetings,
Below is my log entry for
today. Not a bad day after all, bought two new Glocks, and saw 3000 fpm
climb :-)
Cheers,
Rusty
10-30-04 1.0 hours / 38.1 total
Just went out
joyriding, when I should have been testing climb and glide rates. I’ll do that tomorrow. I had quite an audience, so I had to
show off the climb rate a bit.
This is the first time I’ve done a “best climb rate” attempt for any
significant time since I’ve had the C drive, and new intake inlet. I took off and climbed at 90 mph for
the first 1500 feet or so, then leveled, looked for traffic, turned on course
from the airport, and started climbing again. At that point, I was keeping the speed
between 90 and 100 mph. When I
looked down at the VSI, it said 3000 fpm! About 1500 feet later, it still said
3000 fpm. This was with full
tanks, and still a reasonably warm day (80 degrees). I now have absolutely no doubt that I
can “officially” record 3000+ fpm when I do the measured climbs. I’ve still got a lot of tweaking to do
with the plane, and some real improvement will certainly come from that, but
I’m already satisfied with the performance I’m seeing. Still running great too.
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