---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 09/11/16: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 09:26 PM - afternoon flying (taildrags) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 09:26:33 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: afternoon flying From: "taildrags" 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. -------- Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC "Scout" A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=460421#460421 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message pietenpol-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Pietenpol-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/pietenpol-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/pietenpol-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.