Cleared for another year

 Got the paperwork approved :D

Annual inspection and test flight

Yesterday I performed the last parts of the mandatory annual inspection. 

Today I made a check flight to make sure that I have not messed up anything. Once again I was made aware of the importance of making a check flight in good conditions after any maintenance. 

When taking of, the AOA warning stayed on longer than expected. I did not realize it during the flight but when reviewing the logs I can see that my airspeed indication was a little optimistic, I flew with settings that should give me 120kt IAS but it showed almost 125. When on final, I got the feeling of flying slower than shown and the AOA signal started warning me well above 75kt. I started to suspect something wrong with the static, dynamic or AOA inputs, either a loose line or that water had entered the system during the washing after the last flight. After an uneventful landing and taxi, I shut don the engine and systems and found the problem almost immediately after opening the canopy: One of the static input lines had loosened in the T-connection that splits the input from the static inputs to the G3X-GSU25 adhrs and the G5. The effect being that both the G5 and G3X system got static pressure from within the cockpit. I guess this was a good test, now I know what happens if I use the alternate static pressure valve :)

All is good now and I have just sent in the paperwork and expect to be approved for another year.