Yesterday was one of those days that was the tale of two stories. My office day yesterday was one to forget, the rest of the day was one of those "life is good" days. I bugged out of the office for a nice 6 mile run at lunch time then back to the office to clean up the mess I made in the morning. I was seeing rain in the forecast for pretty much the rest of the week so out to the airport I went. I had removed the cowl to do a good look see after putting the hours on her going to SNF and back. With the help of a Swift pilot, we cowled her up, I dialed in some new autopilot gain and deadband numbers and off I launched in beautiful 80 degree, early evening weather. Up I climbed listening to The Counting Crows until I realized it was starting to cool off...hum, I'm passing thorugh 6K.. I leveled off and did some testing of the autopilot and altitude hold, all worked fine. Enough of the autopilot, 20 degrees nose up, neutralize the elevator, stick full left and watch the world roll looking out the windscreen. Well you know the deal, if you roll to the left you must roll to the right to unwind her, so another nose up and to the right we go. After a couple more rolls it was time for a 2.5 G vertical pull, hold it, hold it, 20 degrees short of inverted start unloading for a -.5G pass through inverted, nose coming down pulling again looking for 2.5G and leveling out...nice loop.....continue the nose up 20 degrees and another roll to the left letting it continue to 60 degrees past level to a 180 turn while pulling some G's. Another roll or two then head back to the pattern for one of those, few and far between for me-), greezer wheel landings where I wonder if the mains are actually down. Taxi back to the hangar, swing her around, let the RPM's setting in and pull the mixture with a big grin and content, relaxing, feeling. Push her back in the hangar, put the canopy cover back on and pat her on the horizontal stab as I walk out of the hangar and off to a nice dinner out.
What an wonderful 20 minutes of stress relief that you can't get doing anything other than seeing green over blue. http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/862/snf025.jpg Get out to the shop gang and do some building. Life is good!! Dana Overall 1999 & 2000 National KR Gathering host Richmond, KY i39 RV-7 slider "Black Magic" Flying..well sorta, useta, kinda Barrett Precision O 360 A1A Hartzell C2YR-1BFP/F7497-2 http://rvflying.tripod.com/blackmagic.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMi05-WU2D0#GU5U2spHI_4 http://rvflying.tripod.com do not archive _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail®: Get e-mail storage that grows with you. http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Storage2_042009
