What did you do with your RV this weekend? (4/4/2020 - 4/5/2020)
 

...getting it started.
v/r,dr

Moral support for another RV-er
 

Flew down to Bowling Green Kentucky to lend support to Doug Rohrer for his ready to be inspected RV-9A. Bobby Hester flew in as well to check over Doug's plane prior to scheduling a DAR inspection. Doug was gracious to take me flying in his prior 9A while I was building mine and while my daughter was attending Western Kentucky University.

Took the wife up for some sunset photos. A beautiful flight and evening with some decent photos and big smiles. We really needed to get back to normal even if for only a few minutes. Good medicine!

Chi-town fly by
 

Got an early start to the weekend on Thursday, given conditions were too perfect not to fly. Took a lunchtime vertical distancing break and headed North along the lakefront. Chicago approach was quiet as a mouse and there may have been two arrivals to ORD fly overhead the whole time. Getting close to doing my first oil change...looks like I will be going solo on that given the current constraints. Have enjoyed around 25 hours in this ride since picking her up in mid-February...still grinning. Thank you RM!

Airborne to an undisclosed location :D

Buttoned everything up from the 13th condition inspection on 22C.

A contractor friend of mine had around 500 N95 masks to spare, and a nurse friend works in a unit that could use them.. so off to the mountains I flew, about 85 miles east of me, to get the masks.

Great flight to and from (with a little cloud dodging), and on the way home, I was curious to see how the iPhone did propped up on the top of the panel, recording the landing. Not great, but not awful.

https://youtu.be/R1FKhs8HxxU

Just a little social distancing over the puget sound.

I didn't do too much. I simply swapped rego numbers and replaced the PlanePower FS-14 alternator with a B&C unit. But to do that, I had to...

• Drive to the airport
• Setup generator to keep 4WD battery charged while the kids play Xbox in the back seat.
• Lay out tools on the wing
• Remove the top cowling
• Disconnect the battery negative lead
• Undo 3 of the 4 nuts holding the alternator in place
• Waste 30 minutes trying to work out how to uninstall the 4th nut without removing the P-mag
• Swear
• Uninstall the right P-mag
• Remove the PP alternator
• Drop one of the washers down between the battery and the battery box
• Swear again.
• Remove the battery hold down strap
• Remove the battery positive lead
• Pull the battery out
• Retrieve the washer
• Reinstall the battery
• Reconnect the battery positive
• Install the B&C alternator
• Reinstall the P-mag
• Realise you're not able to re-time & test the P-mag today because you're not going to move 2 planes out of the hangar to do a ground run this late in the day.
• Swear again.
• Install the B&C Voltage regulator
• Install the wiring for the regulator
• Reconnect the battery negative
• Test for smoke
• Remove old RAAus rego numbers from under the wing
• Smack head into flap bracket
• Swear. Again and a lot.
• Pack up tools
• Find out the Honda EU22i generator doesn't put out enough amps to keep the Landcruiser battery charged with Ignition On, Engine Off.
• Swear again.
• Lock the car
• Play soccer with the kids while waiting for the battery to charge
• Cross fingers, unlock car & try to start.
• Pack up generator & 12VDC leads
• Realise the low bus voltage has disabled cruise-control, pre-collision detection, traction control and a host of other sub-systems.
• Swear again.
• Drive home.
• Google where the OBD port is on the new 4WD
• Retrieve OBDII dongle and reset vehicle computers.
• Tell the KRviatrix I CBF cooking dinner and order take-away
• Drink Bundy.

Looks like a long trip to Saratoga and some recy on various mystery locations?;)