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Al,
Yeah after I thought about it, 16.5" - 17"
might not be a bad place to set it. 20" - 21" is not a good choice - I
frequently cruise at that power setting when not in a hurry to get
anywhere.
My test area is a huge chunk of the east
county, but I have to cross Otay Mt. to get there. My DAR wouldnt allow any of
the Class E under the Class B to the north and northeast so I dont really
have a lot of good options. I think you used the same DAR, Alan Purdy? He
mentioned having done another rotary on a canard airplane in the past. He must
have been a lot more lenient with you than he was with me. I need to study a
sectional and maybe go do a little recon flight to see whats landable in the
immediate area beyond Otay. I've flown out there with the RV-6A and prior
to that, the C-140 quite a bit and dont recall a lot of good choices but
probably worth another look. Borrego is within my test area. Ramona is more
forgiving than Brown, but I do like that 8,000' of concrete under me for the
early flights.
Mike Wills
RV-4 N144MW
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Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 4:00
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Second
flight
Great; Mike.
Sounds like things are proceeding well.
I have the stage
point set at about 16.5”, and it is completely seamless. That is helped by the
auto-tune feature in the EM2, but I did have it pretty well nailed before I
had the auto-tune – so it is possible. I do find that above the stage
point it gets richer if I disable the secondary, so I guess at some point I
need to adjust mode 6 and do some retuning.
Throttled back to 5000 RPM
and just flew racetracks over the airport for an hour. My flight test area is
very restrictive. I've got a huge piece of the desert to the east but have to
cross a 3500' mountain and 30 - 40 miles of rugged terrain to get there. Not
until I have a few more hours on it in flight and have 100% confidence. I have
the Mexican border 2 miles south, Class B 2 miles north and the Pacific Ocean
5 miles west. So racetracks over the airport are going to be the norm for a
few hours.
Yeah; Brown field
was within my test area, but I only went there once – too restrictive, and bad
terrain. I had a similar situation doing flight testing out of Ramona. It
didn’t take me long to figure out that climbing out to the north there is a
flat spot with an abandoned strip about 7 miles out; then I could head ENE
over bad terrain about 10 miles over Warner Springs glider port; then E over
the highest terrain and get out over the dessert. Keeping a climb going
until over the highest terrain it was only a few minutes that I wasn’t within
gliding distance of some place I could put down if I had to. Maybe you
can find a reasonable route. Borrego Springs is a good place to go for T
& G’s, and practice emergency landings – not much traffic out there. Is
that within your test area?
All the
best,
Al
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