Hey Guys, I have been busy since coming back from Corvair College back in
November, but manage to fly 2 to 4 hours a week. Our club goes to breakfast
every Sunday morning. I guess the certified guys are starting to accept me as I
have been taking someone different with me every week. The one week the VP of
Lancair international sales went with his knock out gorgeous Evolution turbine.
I took off right behind him and was surprised that I was keeping him in sight
when I realized that he was catching up with each of the planes ahead of us and
doing photos. But as i would just about catch the pair to join in he would jump
out and was gone again. This went on for about 30 miles and several planes
until he circled back for another shot at one of them and i took the
opportunity to firewall it so that he had to add power to catch me (I knew he
would) as he was just at idle to be slow enough to fly with all the Cessna's. I
told the guy with me to watch because i thought that he would sneak up on us. A
couple minutes latter i noticed I was a little left of course and just started
to drift back to the right while i leaned over to check to see i was clear and
there he was about 4 feet off my wing and about 2 feet above with one of those
big grins on his face. What a cool picture it would have been. It really made
it a fun flight with all the chatter from I think 10 planes that morning.
The other thing that i have been up to is i bought myself a Christmas present.
I bought the servos for the dynon D10A and installed them a couple weeks ago. I
started flying and testing and adjusting them last weekend. I have about 5
hours with the Auto Pilot working now. I don't have the heading servo program
all operating correctly yet but the Altitude works great. It is a real hoot.
the Altitude hold is a great help it holds it with inn 10 feet all the time.
The 180 degree turn button is a one shot button and is really cool just to play
with. The bank angle is part of the program and with one push if your in a
cloud in 90 seconds or less your headed back exactly where you came from and at
the same exact altitude. The accent and decent rate works great and hits right
on the target altitude. It now calculates the point when to start a decent when
in a flight plan. I didn't buy the AP34 which is a separate control unit for
the Dynon AP. I don't think it is to cumbersome just to use the buttons in the
menu of the D10A. It does make it easier to change decent rates and altitude
changes but not a big deal. Just having fun with it for now. The other
thing that i have not fessed up to with all of you yet because i am not sure
what the out come is going to be but I guess i am now officially a criminal. On
the way home from Corvair College I busted the special use airspace around
Washington DC. The short of it is the course i had in the GPS had a turn point
just inside because it was a point that was in the data bank. I was flying a
course about 2 to 3 miles west of the GPs course line until about 30 miles
south of it. I was at 11,500 and I ran out of O2 about a half hour into the
flight. which means i was without supplemental O2 for about 1 1/2 hours. When i
got close i started studying the maps again and the gps and for the life of me
i could not figure out why i was going so far off to the west and actually
argued myself into thinking that i had been flying the wrong course for the
past 6 years. At the worst point i was about 1 1/2 miles in from the edge. Any
way when i landed the FBO said i should call US Customs and they told me i was
in trouble and had to call Tracon. While on the phone with Tracon 3 state
police cars came zipping in and 4 officers. I'm still on the phone and the one
young officer ask (a little excited) " are you the pilot, what did you do?"
They didn't know what they were there for either. Anyway after it sunk in to me
what i had done I came right home and wrote up a NASA report and the next day i
got a call from the FISDO. I wrote a report to them and all the information and
am just waiting now to see the outcome. Well is that enough stories -- all
sad but trueJoe Horton,Coopersburg, PA.
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