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1. 09:24 AM - First flight (Rex Rodebush)
2. 09:38 AM - Re: First flight (Mike Welch)
3. 09:49 AM - Re: First flight (Ralph B)
4. 12:05 PM - Re: First flight (Larlaeb)
5. 07:26 PM - Shipping stuff (Dennis Rowe)
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Yesterday morning made my first flight in N553R! It's a Mark III X-tra with a
912S and a 3 blade Warp prop. It was one of the first Xtra's produced by TNK
13-14 years ago.
Everything went pretty well but there are a couple of things that I would like
to hear the group's comments on.
The indicated stall was very repeatable at 55 MPH. This seems high to me but I
did some quick glances at the GPS and I think my airspeed reads high. I will
recheck this and may redo the static connection.
I have a fuel pressure sender to the EIS and I noticed that when throttling down
from say 5000 rpm to 3000 rpm I had a low fuel pressure (set at 2 psi) indication
for only about a second. Then it came immediately back to around 4-5 psi.
I did not have the electric boost pump on at the time. This happened several
times on throttle back.
I also noticed a fuel smell in the cockpit a couple of times which lasted about
maybe 10 seconds. This seemed to occur when turning right? I checked all lined
after the flight and there was no evidence of any leaks anywhere & all connections
were tight. The tank vent is a ram air connection on the bottom of the
cage, passenger side, about 3 inches from the landing gear socket. I'm thinking
about relocating this.
Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks guys.
Rex Rodebush
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Subject: | Re: First flight |
Hi Rex,
Glad to hear your first flight went well. I was about to call you and ask where
you were in your schedule for the flight.
As a guess..I would say your airspeed indicator is off by quite a bit. Your
plane ought to stall pretty close to all the
other Xtras, and from what I understand, that's a lot less than 55 mph. Just my
opinion
Mike Welch
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Subject: | Re: First flight |
Rex, congratulations on your first flight.
Disconnect the static line on your ASI and it should read correctly.
Ralph B
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Ralph B
Original Firestar 447
N91493 E-AB
1000+ hours
26 years flying it
Kolbra 912ULS
N20386
200 hours
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Subject: | Re: First flight |
Congratulations Rex! Glad it went safely. Your stall speed sounds very high to
me.
Allan
Mk IIIC
20 Hours
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Had two great experiences this week with buying a used prop and a set of 2si gearbox
gears from a couple fellow Kolb pilots. Both items were packed perfectly
wrapped tight in bubble wrap and taped well, than pop corn foam packed super
tight around it all to keep everything from shifting in the heavy duty boxes.,keep
this in mind when shipping valuables, a little attention to detail is so
important in keeping things from getting dinged or worse.
Big thanks to Jimmy Young and Luray Weachter! Well done fellows!
Dennis "Skid" Rowe
Mk3, 690L-70, Leechburg, PA
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