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