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 Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:27 am Post subject: 40720 First Flight |
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Jae;
Congratulations! I know how you feel. I am about 2 weeks behind you.
You finding that transitioning to being a pilot again is pretty easy in the -10? I did the transition training with Alex in June, I encourage everyone to get some time in a -10 before flying it alone, makes for a much easier first flight.
Other than the usual high oil temps and CHT on the first couple of flights as the engine breaks in, the plane has been solid.
Don McDonald has been a great mentor to me and I am so indebted to his patience, guidance and kindness the last couple of years, Jesse Saint was a great resource for avionics, Tim Olson and Deems were great in feedback along the early stages of building . They are just an example of all those who have been there to answer my questions the last 4 years of my building. Hard to grasp that I am flying the aluminum that arrived at my garage back in 2007. I was self build the whole way and loved every step, although I sure did stress myself over every detail, now that is paying off for me and I am quite happy with my doing it at the time, because I sure don’t want to deal with it NOW!!
Enjoy the flight and scenery. My scenery is hills and mountains north of San Diego, actually the same area the CAP uses for SAR training, so I should be mountain flying qualified and dead bored of all the rocks when my phase 1 is over, but I sure will enjoy the flight. There is so much to learn about the plane. As a fellow mentor has told me, you will always learn something even after flying the plane for a year.
If you’re ever in SoCal, let’s hook up! Thanks for the feedback on the Skyview rpm issue
Group;
Looking forward to following in Tim’s journeys along the country, I have two daughters, and a wife that wants to learn how to fly, so I’m off to a great start! When we make the trip around the country and finish at Osh next summer I hope I’ll meet many of you along the way. I plan 1 fly-in a year, it will be West Coast/Arizona but I will make it a point to meet and greet anyone there, just as Deems and others did for me along the way as a builder.
Pascal
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:28 am Post subject: 40720 First Flight |
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hi Pascal, congratulations on your first flight too! It would be great to compare notes for us just flying.
Transitioning has been interesting to say the least. I stopped flying PIC in 2006 with too much competition for my time and money. My first PIC time since was 7/2011. Thus, these past few months have been very busy. I am fortunate to have a great group of local builders and pilots who have helped me with transition training. I needed much more than the typical 5 hours and was fortunate to be able to get it locally in my own complex airspace. Ultimately, i decided to let my baby go with a test pilot initially. It's a personal decision for everyone but ultimately, it would have been pretty dumb of me not to let someone with multiple first flights and 18k total hours test fly it for me.
That brings up another great transition which was spending years building in almost total isolation in one's garage/workshop, to finally moving to an airport environment with so many people and personalities, most all of whom are immersed in aviation and looking out for each other. It's great to be in such a community.
I certainly had that surreal moment when looking out the windshield realizing i wasn't looking at the back of the garage. Holy (at)#%(at)! This is nuts! It's a shame more people don't get to experience that euphoria. I never got it while flying Cessnas. 
You realize just how important all those little details are when flight testing and stressing the plane you worked so hard to build. I am glad I redid this part or that part instead of accepting good enough. 200 knots sure sounds different than 120 in a C182. Hearing your HS buffeting when doing stall testing, sure is a nervous moment. You don't want any doubts while stress testing the plane.
Looking forward to meeting up with you too!
Jae
On 11/12/2011 8:24 AM, Pascal wrote: [quote] Jae;
Congratulations! I know how you feel. I am about 2 weeks behind you.
You finding that transitioning to being a pilot again is pretty easy in the -10? I did the transition training with Alex in June, I encourage everyone to get some time in a -10 before flying it alone, makes for a much easier first flight.
Other than the usual high oil temps and CHT on the first couple of flights as the engine breaks in, the plane has been solid.
Don McDonald has been a great mentor to me and I am so indebted to his patience, guidance and kindness the last couple of years, Jesse Saint was a great resource for avionics, Tim Olson and Deems were great in feedback along the early stages of building . They are just an example of all those who have been there to answer my questions the last 4 years of my building. Hard to grasp that I am flying the aluminum that arrived at my garage back in 2007. I was self build the whole way and loved every step, although I sure did stress myself over every detail, now that is paying off for me and I am quite happy with my doing it at the time, because I sure don’t want to deal with it NOW!!
Enjoy the flight and scenery. My scenery is hills and mountains north of San Diego, actually the same area the CAP uses for SAR training, so I should be mountain flying qualified and dead bored of all the rocks when my phase 1 is over, but I sure will enjoy the flight. There is so much to learn about the plane. As a fellow mentor has told me, you will always learn something even after flying the plane for a year.
If you’re ever in SoCal, let’s hook up! Thanks for the feedback on the Skyview rpm issue
Group;
Looking forward to following in Tim’s journeys along the country, I have two daughters, and a wife that wants to learn how to fly, so I’m off to a great start! When we make the trip around the country and finish at Osh next summer I hope I’ll meet many of you along the way. I plan 1 fly-in a year, it will be West Coast/Arizona but I will make it a point to meet and greet anyone there, just as Deems and others did for me along the way as a builder.
Pascal
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