Guys,
I got a few more flights in this week. The time this week was
dedicated to checking climb with full fuel and pilot on board. I have
pretty mush decided that 80 mph indicated is the right normal climb speed
and several take off's yielded a steady climb of 1150/ min.at 2950 rpm.
Short field will most likely be at 70 mph.
I have flown at full throttle at altitudes from 2500 to 5500 and in a
number of temperatures and pressure's. The cruise is just barely under
170 indicated (verified with GPS). There is only a little bit of clean up
on the cowl that I can do and may make it a true 170 mph plane. It is
turning the Sensenich at 3300 rpm. I have done a 400/min cruise decent at
3500 rpm and the airspeed stabilized at 192 mph indicated.
I spent some time this past week practicing landings also (the
plane is still useable after 50 plus landings). I flew into a 50 x 4000
newly paved runway and kept practicing keeping the nose up. I have gotten
to the point now that I am fair at keeping the wheel off the ground and
dancing on the rudder to keepit down the centerline. The nose can be kept
surprisingly high and you need to keep an eye out the side windows for
the edge of the runway.
I also started to tryout Xwind landings in some light conditions.
This caused my only go around lately. I got just a little to fast and it
was on a down slope runway. The second time around I over compensated the
opposite way and thought I might clip the landing lights. On the go
around I was holding for a right cross and when I pushed the throttle in
the added torque really wanted to give it a turn. I should have been more
ready on the rudder.
I need to send the prop back to Dan so I cut 2" off the Sterba
that I have to see if that improves the rpm's that I was getting before.
That should happen sometime this week. The forecast is for cold and windy
all week. Soo we will see.
N357CJ now has 18.6 flight time and about 23 hours on the engine.
Have Good Super Bowl
Joe Horton, Coopersburg, Pa.
joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
