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| Subject: | afternoon flying |
Pretty quiet on the list, so I don't feel too bad posting about just an ordinary
afternoon flight. As I wrote yesterday, Scott's "flooded engine start" routine
worked perfectly and I put three landings and 1.6 hr in the logbook. I now
know for sure that I'm going to rig up an air/oil separator for my crankcase
breather. It's just a fine mist that the propwash picks up in cruise flight
and brings up onto the port side of the passenger's windscreen, but after an hour
or more in cruise, it begins to get noticeable. I'm going to fabricate a
separator to mount to the firewall to put an end to it.
I forgot that I was going to put a level on my top longeron in cruise flight to
see what angle the fuselage is at in cruise. As I mentioned in another post
when the subject came up, I have a very nice little (free) app on my iPhone that
gives both a digital readout as well as a "bubble" analog picture of the angle,
and the numbers are big enough that I can read them without my reading glasses.
I don't remember who had asked about the fuselage attitude in flight,
but I've been curious to find out. I'll try to remember it next time.
Nothing extraordinary about my afternoon flight. The first leg was over to Beagle
Sky Ranch (OR96), a one-way dirt strip, for a pretty decent landing and takeoff.
Next leg was over to Prospect (64S), a nice little 4000x50 paved strip
in some very scenic country. Lost Creek Lake is on the way over there and one
end of the strip is at the edge of a steep dropoff to Mill Creek Falls and the
"Avenue of the Boulders" on the Rogue River. It's always gusty there on a
warm afternoon and I admit that I ballooned pretty good on initial flare and also
on the first bounce, but saved it and lived to fly again ;o)
My third and final landing was back home at Rogue Valley International... main
runway is 8800x150 and you really have to try hard to mess up so badly that you
have to go around. My guess is that you could blow a half-dozen approaches
one after the other, save each one, power back up after you save one, and still
not run off the far end of the runway. Don't ask me how I know ;o) This time
all I needed was 1.5 landings to stick it onto the pavement and make the turnoff
at A3 (less than 2000' from the numbers). You really get spoiled on big
wide runways when you make your final approach almost at cruise speed, come down
with big bright PAPI lights with the throttle still in, and just pull the
power over the numbers and start scrubbing off speed. I have to keep telling
myself not to carry too much airspeed on final and to keep the stick coming back.
It's just hard to do when there is a regional jet full of passengers fanning
themselves holding for takeoff behind you and the runway distance markers
just seem to be creeping by.
My final comment: I was absolutely flabbergasted when I saw how many new marijuana
grows have sprung up around the Rogue Valley just in the last 6-9 months.
They are everywhere! So much for Oregon's once-famous Christmas tree farms...
"Cannabis Green" is the new state color.
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
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