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Dick Sipp
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
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Location: Hope, MI
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 Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:51 pm Post subject: Motivation - Trip report |
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Just completed a great trip in the 10. Left central Michigan on 7/2 for West Bend, WI to visit friend overnight. Next day first leg of trip to Salt Lake City, UT was to Ainsworth, NE for fuel and lunch. The airport was deserted but keys in typical airport car. Had lunch at a cowboy bar, the L-Bow room in the nearby town of Johnstown, population 53. Across the endless plains (lots of wind farms popping up everywhere) to Rawlins, WY. for fuel. The final leg took us into Salt Lake #2 from the northeast.
Spectacular scenery as you drop down over the 12,000' Wasatch range into the basin. Complex airspace but great handling from SL approach.
Spent several days with sister and family, visited Kennecott Copper Mine (biggest hole in the ground and trucks I've ever seen) trout fishing in mountain lakes etc. A great time and beautiful scenery.
On the first leg of the return climbing eastbound over the mountains the plane weighed about 2500. The ground temp was 80. At 12,000 it was still ISA +35 making the density altitude something around 14,500. We still had 800 FPM climb as we leveled at 13,000. Fuel stop at Scottsbluff, NE after only 2.3 hours. Great place to refuel and eat. On the way in had a long chat with the center controller who said he is 3 years into his 10. A commuter followed us on the approach and after we both had landed the controller was asking the commuter what the "10" looked like. On to Council Bluffs, IA. RON. Today began with a short flight to Ankeny, IA and nice visit with 86 year old aunt. Final leg home this afternoon Des Moines - north of Milwaukee across the narrow spot in the lake and back home in 2.4 with 190 kt. ground speeds.
The entire trip was flown IFR with a couple of approaches in IMC. Can't imagine a trip like this without on board weather, I now consider it a no-go item for a long trip.
The airplane never missed a beat in the 16.5 hours. At the higher altitudes and temps 30 degrees above standard we had to increase fuel flow to about 75 rich of peak to keep a couple of cyls below 380.
I know this is not new news for all those already flying. For those about to, keep working, you are going to love your airplane.
See you at OSH.
Tailwinds
Dick Sipp
RV10 N110DV 160 hours
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Tim Olson
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:33 pm Post subject: Motivation - Trip report |
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Way cool, Dick! Tell a little about your approaches if you have time ... I'd love to hear how they went!
Tim
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On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:47 PM, "richard sipp" <rsipp(at)earthlink.net (rsipp(at)earthlink.net)> wrote:
[quote] Just completed a great trip in the 10. Left central Michigan on 7/2 for West Bend, WI to visit friend overnight. Next day first leg of trip to Salt Lake City, UT was to Ainsworth, NE for fuel and lunch. The airport was deserted but keys in typical airport car. Had lunch at a cowboy bar, the L-Bow room in the nearby town of Johnstown, population 53. Across the endless plains (lots of wind farms popping up everywhere) to Rawlins, WY. for fuel. The final leg took us into Salt Lake #2 from the northeast.
Spectacular scenery as you drop down over the 12,000' Wasatch range into the basin. Complex airspace but great handling from SL approach.
Spent several days with sister and family, visited Kennecott Copper Mine (biggest hole in the ground and trucks I've ever seen) trout fishing in mountain lakes etc. A great time and beautiful scenery.
On the first leg of the return climbing eastbound over the mountains the plane weighed about 2500. The ground temp was 80. At 12,000 it was still ISA +35 making the density altitude something around 14,500. We still had 800 FPM climb as we leveled at 13,000. Fuel stop at Scottsbluff, NE after only 2.3 hours. Great place to refuel and eat. On the way in had a long chat with the center controller who said he is 3 years into his 10. A commuter followed us on the approach and after we both had landed the controller was asking the commuter what the "10" looked like. On to Council Bluffs, IA. RON. Today began with a short flight to Ankeny, IA and nice visit with 86 year old aunt. Final leg home this afternoon Des Moines - north of Milwaukee across the narrow spot in the lake and back home in 2.4 with 190 kt. ground speeds.
The entire trip was flown IFR with a couple of approaches in IMC. Can't imagine a trip like this without on board weather, I now consider it a no-go item for a long trip.
The airplane never missed a beat in the 16.5 hours. At the higher altitudes and temps 30 degrees above standard we had to increase fuel flow to about 75 rich of peak to keep a couple of cyls below 380.
I know this is not new news for all those already flying. For those about to, keep working, you are going to love your airplane.
See you at OSH.
Tailwinds
Dick Sipp
RV10 N110DV 160 hours
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Dick Sipp
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 215
Location: Hope, MI
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: Motivation - Trip report |
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Tim,
Nothing unusual to report with the approaches. The arrival into West Bend was approx 1000 overcast, with good vis. below. Flew the ILS. As you know the Chelton with
the HITS display makes an ILS a piece of cake. I did note a very small < 50 feet or so difference between the HITS and the ILS raw data.
On the second approach we flew the GPS into Ainsworth with the weather at 500-800 BKN to OVC and about 3.
Of the 16 hours total about 2.5 was actual IFR. I was a little surprised to see that rain, even relatively light, takes about 8 knots off of the IAS. I had not noticed that before.
I would say it took about 60 hours to become fully comfortable with the Chelton, meaning being able to get the result looked for with the first set of button pushes without any repeats. The more I fly the Chelton in the real IFR world the more I like it. I am sure that the same would hold true for the other comparable systems as far as the learning curve goes. I think the Chelton software logic is well thought out for use in typical IFR ops. It is nice to be able to enter an airway entry and exit point only and not have to add all of the other intermediate fixes, i.e. victor 6 across almost 3 states. This feature cuts down typing errors.
Altitude hold is working very well in both GPSV and the basic modes. I am running the most recent mods on both the Chelton and TruTrak.
Dick
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