More Flying

Braved the cold again this time the OAT on the ground was 42 deg bearable this time. I was able to get some good clear day flying in started on the 08 intermediate sequence man its got a fair bit more inverted figures then years past but looks pretty fun. Still seeing my breath in the cockpit which is a little weird on up lines for hammers. But the performance in the cold is ridiculous. Changed the oil since I just hit 50 hours which was a good time to start using Aeroshell W80 Ashless dispersant instead of the mineral oil. After this oil change I will go to 50 hour oil changes as long as the oil analysis comes back good.

Flight time today 0.6 Total time since rebuild 50.28 hours

Flying

Today I tried to go flying again this time the weather was perfect except the 25 deg OAT.  So once again 30 minutes of preheating and I took off performance is absoulutly unreal I calc’d out to be 3700 FPM unfortunatly I was pretty much freezing so I only flew for 0.3 hours.   I could see my breath in the cockpit! Now that is cold.

Flight time 0.3 hours total time since rebuild 49.6 hours

Flying in the Snow

It was freaking Cold out and a storm was brewing in the west but I thought I had time to go flying for about half hour.  So after a half hour of preheating I taxied out and took off climbed up to 2500 feet and right into some snow.  I pushed over and got straight back in to the pattern and landing and taxied in a freaking 0.2 today oh well it pretty cold anyhow.

Flight time today 0.2 Total time since rebuild 49.3 hours

More Flying

It was most overcast and was only able to do wheel pant perf tests but I spent 0.6 hours running up and down the county checking how much the pants helped I think about 5 mph was gained but I was just playing around so I will have to spend another day really checking

Flight time since rebuild 49.1 Hours

Flew the Wheel Pants

After a trip back home to see the parents and a trip to Hawaii I got back to the cold of Maryland to my beloved airplane.  I was able to get some flight time on the wheel pants today matter of fact 1.2 hours of flight time.  They flew well I think I am seeing about 5 MPH more out of the plane in cruise, but I will have to actually run a course to make sure.  All in all I think the are a help and they look great.  They will look even better with paint.

Flight time 1.2 hours 48.53 hours since rebuild.