Hi! Alan
Congratulations! I'm impressed to manage such long initial flights
without needing to tweek the cooling. Be sure to do the head re-torque
and valve reset (unless they are hydraulic) at no more than 5 hours,
then repeat every 5 hours to 25.
You obviously had much better back up with the combination than I did.
What were the ambient conditions?
Regards
BOB HARRISON G-PTAG (in process of changing to 914 Rotax)
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From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of AlStills
Sent: 29 November 2006 03:33
Subject: Europa-List: First Flight
A note to all that N625AZ flew for the first time Tues 11/28/06. At
10:34 AM
local from KGEU (Glendale Ariz) at the extermely capable hands of
Bob Lindsay. First take off was approx 500 ft, climb was normal. Bob
took
the plane to 3500 ft over the airport and flew for 45 mins before
landing
to a highly excited builder. All flight was normal, the Jabiru engine
ran
flawlessly. The plane flew straight and level with no trim imputs at
all.
Stalls
were straight and level with no bad tendencies.
At 4:00 PM the plane flew for it's second flight of about 30 mins to
expand
the flight envelope a little with 60Deg bank and 2 G turns. All was
normal
and successful. Tomorrow I'll take up with Bob and fly myself for the
first
time. (If I can get any sleep tonight).
Al Stills
N625AZ
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