Showing posts with label First Flight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Flight. Show all posts

7/17/19

No, yes, maybe, no, yes!

Woke up to a low cloud base and rain! Checked the forecast several times before lunch, it looked like there could be a 3 hour break. Of to the airport and after a hopeless hour I refueled but put the RV back into the hangar, the chances of flying was very slim.

Installed my now overhauled 35R and it started looking better again. As there was so little traffic I decided that I did not need a dependable 4000 feet cloud base, an initial cloud base of 3000 and a worst case scenario for landing at 1500 would be enough.

Of I went. For the first hour I could fly at between 4000 and 2500 feet AGL and for the last 30 min at 2000-2500.

The only real squawk was that my com transmit became worse as the flight continued. I could hear everyone else fine but they got lots of static from me. After 30 minutes of bad coms I decided that 1:30 airborne would have to be enough for the first flight.

I will try to make a better movie later on, all onboard GoPros was out of power after about an hour so no onboard media from the landing.


Vans will be notified tomorrow :D