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Steve, your first X-country was less troublesome than mine. On my first X-country, I lost piece of my new exhaust thru the prop, overheated the engine from too many takeoffs too quick, made my first gear up landing, transponder was not working, pittot pas leaking, but I made it back :)
My temps were fine even on the hottest days. Looks like you'll need to fix your cooling by the summer. Keep us informed.
Buly
On Nov 28, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Steve Brooks wrote:
Buly,
Yes, that was my first X-country flight in it. Couldn't have gone any
better, other than I'd still like to have my temps about 10 degrees less.
For upper 60's I would have like to seen about 170 degrees instead of 180,
but that gives me something to work on.
Steve
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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On
Behalf Of atlasyts@bellsouth.net
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:43 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Plane moved to NC finally
Steve glad to hear you made to move to SC without any problems. I guess that
was your first long X-country? Enjoy it.
Buly
From: "Steve Brooks" <cozy4pilot@gmail.com>
Date: 2006/11/27 Mon AM 08:11:26 EST
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Plane moved to NC finally
Friday, I went down to SC to replace my fuel rail, which had developed a
slight leak. Had three days of perfect weather. High temperatures in the
upper 60's, clear skies, and light winds. I replaced the fuel rail, and
after switching to different o-rings on the RC engineering injectors, I
got
a perfect seal. The stock Mazda seals would not work on these injectors,
but thankfully Paul Brannon had the correct o-rings.
It was getting dusk, but I managed to get in one trip around the pattern.
On Saturday I made two flights, totally a little over an hour, and
everything ran great. Well, other than I messed with the mixture on mode
3,
and ended up being too lean when I throttled down in the pattern.
Yesterday, I made the flight of about 190 NM and the plane and engine were
perfect. It was a beautiful day, and while not unlimited visibility, it
was
probably 30-40 miles, clear skies, and very smooth air at my cruising
altitude of 3500 MSL. I flew the trip at about 55-60 % power, since I am
still nursing along my stock turbo. Still made about 125-130 KTS, and
only
took about 90 minutes to make the trip, with a 10 KT headwind most of the
way. It was very nice, after all the little problems I had, to have a
trouble free flight. The rotary engine just signs along, not missing a
beat.
OAT was about 67 degrees, and engines temperatures ran at 185 on coolant
and
180 on the oil, at 4800 RPM's. The oil is a digital display that should
be
very accurate. The coolant is an analog gauge, so the 185 is more of a
guess. The needle was slight above the 180 mark.
I also got to see the first flight of Paul and Lou's Lancair with the 20B.
I'm sure that one of them will tell everyone about it.
Steve Brooks
Cozy MKIV N75CZ
Turbo 13B - 47 hours
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