Final inspection

Made a slow 15 minute flight from my home base to ESSE close to Stockholm for the inspection.

Misjudged the height on landing and made my biggest jump so far. The RV-14 might be a little bit bouncy but at the same time very stable even when mistreated like this :)

I'll post a movie later, it's on yourube already. 

The inspection went well, all signs in place and my small paperwork errors could be corrected on site :) The aircraft looks great, before the flight I found the loose screw that made my right fuel tank sender giving me intermittently faulty readings

Final inspection scheduled

Final inspection is planned to be carried out this Sunday. Paperwork and application for the permanent permit to fly was delivered last week.

Isn´t it funny how spelling mistakes and other small errors just pops out after you have delivered the material. I already have an updated verion of my POH but will wait to get that one approved until I have some substantial improvements.

I have one remaining problem, but I hope it will be considered an operational issue and not an issue for certification. What is missing it an "alternate static" valve. Only needed for IFR operation. I do intend to install one ASAP but have not found a good valve yet so it will probably not be installed during the inspection.

Panel version 3, mandatory extra annual in preparation for permanent permit to fly, started

Ordered some expensive but nice looking printed aluminium pieces for marking the switches and breakers.

Some screws are missing as they needed to be replaced, the Seat heat switch is not connected and installed and the same is thru for the TOGA button. Apart from that I can present the third version of the panel below:

Do not worry, the mag switches were just temporary hot while torquing the nuts.

The engine compartment part of the annual is done, some anti-chaffing improvements, all looks good. Still not enough rubbing from the baffling to clearly see where one should add some epoxy protection on the cowls. Probably at next annual.