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Not much to say but since Chris is begging for
something to read....
Had my first flight away from the immediate
vicinity of my home airport today. I've been hesitant to leave because I'm
surrounded by a lot of mostly unlandable mountains and desert. But the airplane
has been flying well for the past few hours with nothing to do after each flight
but look things over - nothing to fix.
So I ventured out over the mountains to Borrego
some 50 miles away. Nothing really to report. Everything worked fine and the
airplane seems to be performing well. It still seems to be matching the
performance of my old 160HP RV-6A (though if the EFISM can be trusted, the fuel
burn is a little higher). And at some point I think there is more performance to
be had since I still think I'm giving up some HP and have some excess cooling.
But those are things to address in the future. For now I'm just going to fly
it.
So add another 1.3 hours to the total. 13 hours in
the book, 27 more to go.
Mike Wills
RV-4 N144MW
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