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Hi Gang,
Made a 1600 mile detour from Sun & Fun to Louisiana to
visit with Grandson and meet his French girlfriend. Had a great time
at Sun & Fun. Was invited by Tracy and Laura to pitch my tent beside
them again this year, I think mainly for the entertainment value provided.
Ask Laura when you next see her about, awnings, rain, lafumas and leaking air
mattress.
I installed my new model EFI system monitor for the return
flight home. Discovered immediately that I need to turn up the brightness
of the display for full sun. Now that I have the "Snubber" fix for my EC2
provided by Tracy during my stop - over with he and Laura that my monitor and
the EC2 now agree without my historic fudge-factor. The first stop I
onloaded 25 gallons of fuel and the monitor showed 25.09 gallons used. So
accuracy is looking good.
Unfortunately leaving Louisiana on Friday, I found I had
50+ MPH tail wind. Landed to refuel in Northern Alabama, taxied back
on the taxiway parallel to the runway and turned to get onto the runway. I
thought - "Well, the FAA is really getting serious about runway-incursions, they
have placed rumble strips across the taxi way's just before the
runway."
With that thought filed away, I continued to turn
and align for take off. NOW I thought this is carrying it too far.
Rumble strips on the taxi way is one thing - rumble strips on the runway is
another. About that time the light bulb came on - I had a flat
tire. Sure enough it was the nose wheel tire - flatter than a
pancake. Fortunately I carry a spare tube and there was a mechanic there
and I was on my way after about an hour delay.
I think everyone has covered the Sun & Fun
events. We ended up having 5 rotary aircraft there including Rich's newly
painted RV-3 as well as Max Lassache flying his beautiful Falcair
-12?
So a great time and enjoyed seeing a number of you
there.
'Till next time
Ed
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