AAAaaarrrrgh. Trying to Map the Idle area on the EC2 without an EM2 is like trying to get a bunch of monkeys to write the great novels.
Today I started the engine again. After 45 min. I finally got acceptable idle and injector transition, flew out over the desert and worked on it some more in the air, then went to a small RV Fly in.
I even did a neat little overhead pattern right over the crowd.
Little did I know that there had been a fatal long-EZ accident on base-to-final 15 min earlier... That takes some of the fun out of show-boating and made me feel like a jerk.
Nonetheless, despite my unfinished appearance I seemed to be the hit of the fly in with the rotary. Very nice looking RVs were ignored while a crowd of 15-20 wanted to see my engine and hear me talk about it. That is a really cool thing about a rotary... the down side is that I can never go ANYWHERE without someone wanting me to take off my cowl (that's OK, I love it)
After the fly-in we did a form take off and then buzzed a bunch of cows. I didn't seem to have any problem keeping up with the 200 h.p. lyc. but don't know his throttle status.
Anyway, Idle still sucks. The mixture tolerance for variation at idle seems to be very small, where at full throttle the mixture tolerance seems to fairly wide.
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