Status Brantel #72823
3.3 Hrs last evening...9 more to go...
Calibrated my AOA indicator and that thing works great!
More flying on top of a tight scattered layer....Dogging the towers! If I am ever going to get thru this, I have to fly in less than perfect weather
I filled up with gas before the flight and I had about what I started with after I was done!!! $$$$
Calibrated my AOA indicator and that thing works great!
More flying on top of a tight scattered layer....Dogging the towers! If I am ever going to get thru this, I have to fly in less than perfect weather
I filled up with gas before the flight and I had about what I started with after I was done!!! $$$$
Brantel (Brian Chesteen),
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
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Brian,
Congrats on making it this far through Phase I. Who's getting the first ride once you hit the magic 40. Thanks for posting these, they are giving me a lot of motivation to finish up!
What squawks, if any, have you found with your bird during phase I?
Congrats on making it this far through Phase I. Who's getting the first ride once you hit the magic 40. Thanks for posting these, they are giving me a lot of motivation to finish up!
What squawks, if any, have you found with your bird during phase I?
Mike Bullock
http://www.rvplane.com
RV-7 | Superior IO-360 | Whirlwind 200RV
Garmin GTN650 | GRT Dual Sport SX EFIS
Status: FLYING!
http://www.rvplane.com
RV-7 | Superior IO-360 | Whirlwind 200RV
Garmin GTN650 | GRT Dual Sport SX EFIS
Status: FLYING!
Most likely my Uncle will get the first ride since he helped buck a bunch of rivets...Then my wife...Then my other RV buddies that want to see what the view is like out of a tipper....
Squawks?
1. Safeair static ports were not accurate at all...long story. Fixed em and moved on. Seems really accurate now.
2. Already cracked the left aft corner of my baffles since I did not install a cross brace or beef that corner up with a piece of angle.
3. Already broke one of the eyes off the bottom cowl to firewall hinges.
4. Slightly heavy left wing (Even when burning enough gas out of the left to compensate for my fat butt)
5. I am going to have to finish the lower intersection fairings and slick up all the glass work before I can turn it over to the painter next year
6. It cost alot in fuel to run a new rebuilt engine wide open for hours and hours and hours and hours full rich!!! I have been leaning over the past 10 hours and that helps some.
7. I had a whistle that came from the front of the canopy because I was flying without a seal in place in the front. It was really really loud at high speed. Scary loud like something was about to fly apart. Gone now with the seal in place.
8. The engine is still using more oil than I would like. I am going to go another oil change while staying with mineral oil to see if it gets better. In the beginning I was babying the power settings since the whistle would start to worry me but once I finally found the root cause of that, it has been above 75% power ever since...
9. The engine will heat up on warm days on extended high performance climbs. Once the CHT's hit 400-410 I have to push the nose down.
10. I have to work instead of fly!!!
I have learned a ton about how to fly an RV with a FP prop. On takeoff once your off the ground, you can get much more performance if you let the airspeed built to at least 100kts before pulling up. It is like catching another gear.. You can actually feal the prop start to really bite. If I pull too soon, the plane feels like it never grabs hold and the performance suffers on climbout.
I like to get off the ground and fly at about 10-15 ft till the kick in the pants hits (~100kts) and then I pull... Gets me to pattern altitude almost before the end of our 5700ft runway.
Squawks?
1. Safeair static ports were not accurate at all...long story. Fixed em and moved on. Seems really accurate now.
2. Already cracked the left aft corner of my baffles since I did not install a cross brace or beef that corner up with a piece of angle.
3. Already broke one of the eyes off the bottom cowl to firewall hinges.
4. Slightly heavy left wing (Even when burning enough gas out of the left to compensate for my fat butt)
5. I am going to have to finish the lower intersection fairings and slick up all the glass work before I can turn it over to the painter next year
6. It cost alot in fuel to run a new rebuilt engine wide open for hours and hours and hours and hours full rich!!! I have been leaning over the past 10 hours and that helps some.
7. I had a whistle that came from the front of the canopy because I was flying without a seal in place in the front. It was really really loud at high speed. Scary loud like something was about to fly apart. Gone now with the seal in place.
8. The engine is still using more oil than I would like. I am going to go another oil change while staying with mineral oil to see if it gets better. In the beginning I was babying the power settings since the whistle would start to worry me but once I finally found the root cause of that, it has been above 75% power ever since...
9. The engine will heat up on warm days on extended high performance climbs. Once the CHT's hit 400-410 I have to push the nose down.
10. I have to work instead of fly!!!
I have learned a ton about how to fly an RV with a FP prop. On takeoff once your off the ground, you can get much more performance if you let the airspeed built to at least 100kts before pulling up. It is like catching another gear.. You can actually feal the prop start to really bite. If I pull too soon, the plane feels like it never grabs hold and the performance suffers on climbout.
I like to get off the ground and fly at about 10-15 ft till the kick in the pants hits (~100kts) and then I pull... Gets me to pattern altitude almost before the end of our 5700ft runway.
Brantel (Brian Chesteen),
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
I'll bite. What's the story on the static ports? I have the latest incarnation of these. They look like they will stick out a bit past the skin surface, and are slightly machined to look more like the Van's pop rivet profile.Brantel wrote: Squawks?
1. Safeair static ports were not accurate at all...long story. Fixed em and moved on. Seems really accurate now.
Thanks!
Bruce Hill
RV-9A N5771H flying over 1100 hours!
Build Log at http://www.overthehills.com/RV-9A-Project
Blog at https://flyingoverthehills.wordpress.com/
EAA Tech Counselor, A&P
RV-9A N5771H flying over 1100 hours!
Build Log at http://www.overthehills.com/RV-9A-Project
Blog at https://flyingoverthehills.wordpress.com/
EAA Tech Counselor, A&P
Hey Bruce,
Rather than write the book about it here, you can start at the beginning of this thread and read all about it.
http://www.vansairforce.com/community/s ... ght=static
If you are comfortabe flying with wrong IAS readings, I would fly first since yours may not have issues like mine did. Just do a stall or two and compare with Van's numbers that way you can see how far off if any your system might be.
Rather than write the book about it here, you can start at the beginning of this thread and read all about it.
http://www.vansairforce.com/community/s ... ght=static
If you are comfortabe flying with wrong IAS readings, I would fly first since yours may not have issues like mine did. Just do a stall or two and compare with Van's numbers that way you can see how far off if any your system might be.
Brantel (Brian Chesteen),
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
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Very very cool!
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Current Build: 2 years into a beautiful little girl
Current Build: 2 years into a beautiful little girl
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Most excellent! Have you given that first ride yet?
http://www.rivetbangers.com - Now integrating web and mail!
Current Build: 2 years into a beautiful little girl
Current Build: 2 years into a beautiful little girl
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Not this year... Our company always schedules a big shutdown for maintenance and projects that week...Bob Barrett wrote:Congratulations! Are you flying to Oshkosh this year?
Brantel (Brian Chesteen),
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD