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Old 08-14-2017, 09:01 PM
jwbruce jwbruce is offline
 
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Awesome! Congratulations.

I've followed your build log and copied several of your ideas. It is very motivating to feel the excitement and accomplishment in your post. It gives those of us still building the energy to keep progressing.

Congrats again and enjoy YOUR airplane.
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Old 08-15-2017, 08:27 AM
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Thanks everybody for the nice comments. Glad to hear my log has been helpful to some of you. So many other builder's logs have been helpful to me, I'm glad I can add to the repository.

Andrew and Dennis Crider (RV12 builders at CJR) were there on Sunday and graciously took some really nice pictures of the event. They are shared in a public google drive folder here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...Dl0eDYxcjZTUTQ
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Old 08-15-2017, 10:23 AM
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Congratulations Joe, wondering what kind of settings you had for your engine break-in and how you are managing that, by egt, or full rich/power, or...?
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Old 08-15-2017, 10:33 AM
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Default Congrats, Joe

I'm a few years behind you

Paraphrasing Vlad when he was at my house talking to wife Lorri about how to get this thing finished and out of her basement:

Tell him not to bother with paint or interior until after it's flying. Just get on with assembly.

I see you opted for fly-now, paint-later. Can't see your interior appointments. Did you decide on white primer of the canopy top? How soon do you think you'll paint?

When you finish phase one, come over this way and get some grass stains on the wheel pants. You will be fitting wheel pants, right?
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Old 08-15-2017, 10:34 AM
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Default Great job!!!

Probably the best first flight ever!!

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Old 08-15-2017, 11:03 AM
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Congratulations Joe, wondering what kind of settings you had for your engine break-in and how you are managing that, by egt, or full rich/power, or...?
My plan was to climb full power to 3000', then dial back to 2400 and reduce MAP to make 75%, lean but stay rich for cooling, and fly around like that for an hour, maybe decreasing power to 65% after 30 minutes. Then slow to approach speed (but not stall), verify flaps will deploy, and then head home. .... Almost none of the above!

Looking back I figure I made about a dozen errors, including missing checklist items! (Really? How do you look at a checklist and miss items ??). Dummy. But I did do some things right, too, especially when surprised with the flaps not deploying. Low and slow with a 5000' runway, I didn't even consider debugging the flaps until on the ground.

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Probably the best first flight ever!! Suds
If only! But hopefully with the first flight jitters out of the way, I'll do better on the second. My plan for flight #2 is identical to flight #1. We'll see if I can do it right next time.
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Old 08-15-2017, 11:40 AM
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I see you opted for fly-now, paint-later. Can't see your interior appointments. Did you decide on white primer of the canopy top? How soon do you think you'll paint?

When you finish phase one, come over this way and get some grass stains on the wheel pants. You will be fitting wheel pants, right?
Interior looks OK, but still needs some work to pretty it up. No idea when I'll paint. I tend to be a one-thing-at-a-time kind of guy. When I finish phase 1, I'll start thinking about paint. I only know I won't be painting it myself. I HATE painting ... Actually it's not so much the painting I hate. It's the prep and cleanup. ... 6 hours of prep, 20 minutes painting, 2 hours of cleanup - not counting the paint you get in your hair and up your nose (did I write that out loud?). No thanks!

The white primer on the top is Stewart Systems EkoPrime.

I have the wheel pants done, and am now looking forward to a visit to your strip. Thanks for the invite!
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Old 08-15-2017, 12:40 PM
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Default Thanks for the details.

I will look into EkoPrime.

What app did you use to generate that handsome build log? Couldn't find any trademark info on the pages to clue me in...
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Old 08-15-2017, 12:41 PM
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What app did you use to generate that handsome build log? Couldn't find any trademark info on the pages to clue me in...
I used Wordpress.

https://wordpress.com/
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Old 08-15-2017, 05:48 PM
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Default Congratulations

Congratulations Joe....been a while since we were in contact and in between you done went and finished your airplane!!! Great job!
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