After having bad weather and high winds for few weeks, today the  weather was turning perfect for another flight. So I punched out  early from work and went to get the plane ready. By the time I was  all done, my minister of finance, safety & communications officer  arrived from work. She mounted up and I tried to lift the nose of the  plane from grazing position with the electric nose lift. No go?  Started checking the electric connections and one of the micro  switches fell apart in my hand. Anyway I fixed that and left the gear  down. Taxied to the runup area and made the usual run-up checks.  Waited forever behind couple of jets to come and go, than was my  turn. Full power and we were rolling. On climb out the temps went to  210F, but dropped on downwind very fast to 170-190. Made couple of  wide circles over the airport at 1500 ft but it was already getting  dark, and she requested permission to join the pattern and land.  Snuck in front of a jet on long final and did a beautiful landing. I  let it roll almost to the end of the 6K ft runway and made the jet go  around behind me. Payback is a bitch :).
By the time we taxied back to the hangar it was dark. This time we  had few extra moments to enjoy the plane with the sunset on one side  and the Atlantic on the other. that's what she told me. My eyeballs  were stuck to the panel and EC2.
During the flight I noticed my mixture bar was going from lean to  totally desapearing. Turning the knob to full rich was not enough. So  I have to do some more tuning.
Bulent "Buly" Aliev
FXE Ft lauderdale, FL
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