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). Once I was straight and level heading toward home, I noticed that = the ball was quite a bit to the right, so I added some right rudder, and the fuel level jumped from about 5 to 11 gallons. I spend the next few = minutes yawing the airplane slightly one way, then the other, and found that = both fuel levels change pretty drastically with just a bit of yaw. Makes = sense of course. I kept the ball centered for the next few minutes, and = noticed a fairly steady rise in fuel level in the right (feed) tank, and drop in = the left. Knowing I had fuel to play with, I went and "played", and = actually quit worrying about ending up in a field for a while. =20 =20 I'll tape a trim tab back on the plane before I go out again, but I'll = make sure the ball is centered when checking the fuel level from now on. =20 =20 Cheers, Rusty =20 ------=_NextPart_000_006B_01C569FD.F7C607C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message

Greetings,

Well, another = uneventful=20 flight today. Temps are still a bit too good, and I need to = do my=20 0-10000 ft climb test to see how much more power I can add. =20 What? You didn't think I was just going to reduce the cooling did = you=20 :-) There were no leaks of anything, (despite a little = negative=20 G's in a botched roll). I saw no less than 2000 fpm = climb=20 at any altitude up to the max of 6500 ft today. Level at = 6500=20 WOT gave 213 mph on the EM-2, and 200 even on = the GPS. This=20 doesn't mean much, but = it sounds good.

I have a little = more understanding perhaps on my fuel transfer issues, and there's = a=20 possibility that it's really not so bad. With all the changing of = thrust=20 angles on the engine, I've had my trim tab screwed up as well, = and=20 it's been on my non-critical list of things to get around to = fixing. =20

Today, I took = off with less=20 fuel in the feed tank than what I had in the non-feed, just so I could = play with=20 the transfer some more. Initially, it seemed like nothing was = happening, and I only showed about 5 gallons in the feed tank, = so I=20 made a turn to head back home. As I did that, I noticed that = the=20 levels were all over the place momentarily (it was about = a 3 g=20 turn <g>). Once I was straight and level heading toward = home, I=20 noticed that the ball was quite a bit to the right, so I added some = right=20 rudder, and the fuel level jumped from about 5 to 11 gallons. I = spend the=20 next few minutes yawing the airplane slightly one way, then the = other,=20 and found that both fuel levels change pretty drastically = with=20 just a bit of yaw. Makes sense of course. I kept the = ball=20 centered for the next few minutes, and noticed a fairly steady rise in = fuel=20 level in the right (feed) tank, and drop in the left. Knowing = I had=20 fuel to play with, I went and "played", and actually quit worrying = about=20 ending up in a field for a while.

I'll tape = a trim tab=20 back on the plane before I go out again, but I'll make sure = the ball=20 is centered when checking the fuel level from now=20 on.

Cheers,

Rusty=20

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