Bernie,
Congratulations on the first flight.  If I did 3 high power runs on the
ground, my engine would be hot too.  You probably need to make another
flight without the high speed runs, and see what the temps are then.  Also,
if you can, make the flight long enough to see what the temperature
stabilizes at after you reduce to cruise power.

Regards,
Steve Brooks (been through the temperature thing)


-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On
Behalf Of jbker@juno.com
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:16 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Another rotary airplane now flying



RV9A made a short circuit around the patch to day. Tom Hahn flew it since I
had not realized that I needed a CFI endorsement for my insurance to
activate. He has flown most of the local RV's on first flight. He had run
the airplane at high power 3 times the length of the field (4000 feet of
soft turf) and the coolant temp was very hot when he took off. Oil temps
were good.

He saw an indicated coolant temp of 249, but no coolant appeared to blow out
of the system. Talked to Tracy and he said there were 2 different sensors
and maybe I was cal'd wrong. We checked it and the cal was correct. It did
not seem that hot when we taxied in and snatched the top cowl off.

Scratching head on next step, but the airplane flew great!

Bernie

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