Guys
I was in withdrawal. It had been a week already. But got in a 30 min
flight at the end of the day on a crystal clear sky. It was still a
little bumpy yet and a little more wind than I had been in. About 10kts
out of the WNW. I try little things on each flight and this time I had
installed a small trim tab to the left aileron to see if it would pick it
up just a tad. I need to bend it a little bit more as it did not seem to
have any effect. I finally got around to trying a 100K resistor on the
tach line of the EIS. I tried a number of different resistors and PR
settings with each resistor and came to the same conclusion that a couple
other guys came to. The 100K resistor gives the closest reading to the
Sun tach that I was using on a P/R 3. The EIS is now very close to
correct and the dancing around of numbers has settled way down. It only
varies 20 to 30 rpm's instead of the 2 to 300 it was jumping. It stayed
very steady for the full 30 min flight and was accurate with the Sun tach
in all ranges. The Sun tach has served it's purpose and is removed from
the panel.
It was interesting to come home tonight to 150 plus e-mail, many
about X wind landings. I did about a 20 degree cross tonight from the
right and I honestly can not say exactly how I performed it. I remember
that after turning finial I let it crab into the wind and that tells me
how much cross I have to deal with. After that I think that I perfer
looking straight down the center line and most likely went to a wing low
into the wind and held center line with rudder. I also noticed that the
sink rate seemed excessive during finial in this configuration at close
to 700/min. I had to add just a touch of power just before the numbers to
clear the end and help arrest the sink rate. You need to be quick with
rudder when adding power and then taking it back out. I was in ground
effect already and was a little left of center but the KR responded well
with some quick and very small imputes right back to center and a nice
little flare, no chirp and best of all no side loads on the mains. I have
gotten better at holding the nose off and it slows down better with the
nose up.
I followed a Lancair in and found he is hangered across from me.
I told him my KR wanted to be a Lancair when it grew up. He laughed.
BTW- some early photos of Lance Neubert and his KR in on of this
month's Mag's, Either Kitplane or Sport Aviation. I forget which.
N357CJ- 19.2 hours and counting (with a nitride crank)
Joe Horton, Coopersburg, Pa.
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