Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #2675
From: Russell Duffy <13brv3@bellsouth.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] inspection and first flight ?
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:03:17 -0500
To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Message
    I expect to hear tales from Rusty stretching his wings today, either that or some cussing about injectors, etc. :-(

 Great news about the inspection Todd.  Congrats!

As for first flight reports, I wouldn't expect to hear any today.  I spent a long day yesterday completing little items on my to-do list, and whittled it down to only two remaining.  One is a 30 minute job, and the other (tuning the engine) "should" be a 15 minute job.  My plan for today, is to finish these items, and call it quits for the weekend.  My airport is under (900 ft) the class C airspace of Whiting Field, which is a large Navy training facility.  Fortunately, for us, they're shut down on Sat, and most of Sun (until about 3 pm), so the Class C portion goes away.  The first flight will take place when Whiting is closed if possible, so next Sat will be the target date.  That gives me a week to think of any remaining items I might have forgotten, and think through the first flight some more.   

As a side note, one of the items I had to do yesterday was to bend my oil dipstick shorter, and fashion a door in the top cowl to get to it.  When I first fit the top cowl, I just drilled a round hole so I could insert the dipstick.  As it turned out, the factory stick extended just above the cowl, and I gave some thought to just leaving it like that.  I finally decided that I had to make this right, since my "buddy" Bob (webmaster for the local EAA chapter, who also has a key to my hanger) would surely put a picture of my dipstick on the web page.  He's been bugging me to put the top cowl on, and I'm sure that was his reason.  I think he'll be disappointed :-)

I already know that the new EC-2 chips work on the "factory 0" default settings, and I'll start out today with the new default settings, which are Tracy's actual engine parameters.  Assuming all goes well, I'll verify the new tach at high rpms, and see what my latest static RPM is, now that I set the prop to 15 degrees.  I'm shooting for at least 5000 rpm static at 30 inches MAP.   All running today will be done with the cowl completely on, so I'll get to see how the temps behave.  It's mighty hot, so it should be a good test. 

Cheers,
Rusty (Fat lady not singing today)

 

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