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Thanks all for the educational input. I definitely have an IFR departure
strategy now for this (and any) uncontrolled airport, particularly in
NorCal's jurisdiction: get a clearance plus void time ...

Sorry in advance for the long post, but I had a strange experience yesterday
trying to open an IFR flight plan and wonder 1) what I did wrong and 2) has
anybody else had a similar experience?

Bac ...

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Dan Charrois <dan@syz.com> wrote:

I'm wondering what procedures people are using for starting their IO-540s, particularly
hot starts.

My setup is pr ...

Second that. Have about 100 hrs. on the Surefly replacing the right mag. I removed the jumper on ignition switch that grounds the right mag at startup, so both the left mag with SlickStart and the r ...

Yet another reason that some of us who live within an hour or so of RV-10 flying time from the path of totality are planning to lift off about 1.5 hrs before the event and loiter on the totality cente ...

I'll chime in to say I replaced my right mag with the Surefly unit a couple
of weeks ago and am very pleased with the results to date.

I left the Slick mag with the retard connection plus SlickS ...

Same story on my -10. Flew it for about 400 hours without a Slick start and
without knowing I even needed one. Always started great cold, but became
increasingly hard to start hot, till I once had ...

I purchased that Champion Slick Magneto Maintenance kit but ended up not
using it when I got a chance to visit the closest magneto specialty shop and
watched how they do inspections and rebuilds. T ...

After flying with the Stratux ADS-B In receiver for a few months, I liked it
and decided to build it into the plane. Mounting an inexpensive ($17)
external ADS-B antenna on the belly pretty far bac ...

Got my -10 upgraded to ADS-B out (GNS480+GTX330ES) and also built the
Stratux ADS-B + wifi unit, and like it enough that I think I will just build
it into the plane. Thinking about mounting the Ras ...

Would it be worth considering creation of an amicus brief co-signed by
hundreds of us RV-10 builder-pilots about the quality of the kit, and good
citizenship of the company?

What the lawyers sa ...

Agree with Tim and Jesse on the seating and preference for doing first
flights for others' RV aircraft alone; have done three of these recently and
it much reduces the cognitive load on the test pil ...

Since my RV-10 seems to be the poster child for bad decisions made with
respect to window adhesives, I'll update the story. I used a composite
adhesive back in 2007 (no longer on the market) that ...

"Everyone seems to dislike weld-on" is something of a misapprehension, no doubt caused by the amount of chatter on the newsgroups. Van's didn't choose Weld-on lightly or without the enginee ...

I operate my RV-10 in and out of a turf runway at my residential airpark on
a regular basis (WN29 - see
http://www.blueribbonfarmsassociation.com/airstrip.shtml ) and it is a fine
performer. Occas ...

So after decades of blissfully thinking I was doing the right thing for my
aircraft engines by feeding them Aeroshell 15W50, it now is being called
evil stuff by knowledgeable folks like Mike Busch. ...

Time: 01:09:08 PM PST US
Subject: Engine purchase
From: "bob88" <marty.crooks@comcast.net>

I have located Lycoming IO540 C4B5 (as opposed to the Vans current D4A5
model)
with 70 ...

I think you can negotiate what you want regarding reassembly with most paint
shops. My RV-7A was painted at Gillespie field in San Diego, and the
painter just left a hangar full of painted assembli ...

I used a high end auto shop to do the painting on my RV-12, which is much
more amenable to auto shop work with its removable wings, and all of the
components will fit in a car-sized paint booth. Th ...

We flew our RV-10 down to Oregon yesterday to become, as far as Van's employees could remember, the first ones ever to pick up an RV-12 fuselage kit and fly away with it in a -10. Great fun. Full st ...