Flight 15

Another beautiful flight over a snow covered landscape. I sorted out a GPS-EFIS problem that have haunted me for many months. I could not get the flightplans to transfer.

The problem was that while I correctly had only the PFD active in the G3X settings, I somehow managed to have an RS232 setting active for the non-existing MFD. This non-existing MFD got priority over the PFD from the GTN625 resulting in that I got no MapMX communication between the boxes.

After the flight I removed the tail area cover and last night I made a more permanent "Experimental" marking.

Roll Servo

Either it is to windy or cloud cover below 1000 feet. Not conditions I am willing to fly my RV in at this stage of the flight test period.

The hangar is cold but I have been there a few times, checking things out and I have finally gotten the roll-servo in place. Roll trim still works, good to know that the servo does not need power for the trim commands to be relayed.

I hope to get it connected during my next session. It is now almost exactly one months until me and my family will move to a new little city/suburb. This will turn my 1:15 one way drive to the airport into a 28-33 minute drive :D

Status early 2020

I did one uneventful flight in mid January, 12.8 hours in the air so far.

Today was a good day to visit the airport but the wind was strong, 90 degrees across the runway and getting more and more gusty by the minute so I decided to stay in the hangar and check/fix/improve instead.

Task one was to attach the list for the glareshield. looks great, took five minutes to install and costed less than 10$ including freight :)  

 Then I removed the cowling and checked everything over. Found no new problems. I will probably reroute the heater cable/contact before next flight.

Last physical task was removing the right wing drain that has a very slow leak. I managed to remove it, lose less than 1 gallon of fuel while inspecting it, finding and removing a small string of proseal that was preventing the o-ring to fully seal, make a quick cleaning of the treads and then reattaching the drain. I have no new sealant on the treads, will check for leakage but I saw no leak for the few minutes that I looked for it.

Finished of with updating the software version of my GTN625 and the databases in my G3X system.

I looked at the cylinder 1 EGT sensor wire but I did not have the necessary tools to really check it out.