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Old 01-01-2011, 08:24 PM
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LA, I was watching the fuel flow's at the low power settings I was using and thinking, "Darn, those are higher than the cruise settings I had with the little engine." This bigger engine is going to hurt my wallet!
Just throttle back a bit. You should see similar fuel flow at the same airspeed.
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Old 01-01-2011, 09:16 PM
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Just throttle back a bit. You should see similar fuel flow at the same airspeed.
I'm curious about this. The old prop was a climb prop and this new one should be an uber cruiser. Thus, will I actually see higher airspeeds at the same fuel flows?
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Old 01-14-2011, 02:15 PM
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Tomorrow we will roll the -9 across the scales (Same ones we used to do the original W&B), back in 2007 the -9 came in at 990 lbs empty.

Here are the major changes that I have made, which might impact the W&B:

Added Dynon auto pilot (5 lbs)
EICommander (5 oz, call it half a pound with the wiring.)
Replaced the O-290-D2 with an ECi O-360 (21 lbs heavier)
Leather interior (8 lbs)
James holey cowl and cooling plenum (Weight unknown)
Some tie down rings in the baggage compartment
Some dirt
And who knows what else that I have forgotten about.

I?m guessing my new empty weight will be around 1025 to 1030 lbs.

What say ye, what do you think my new empty weight will be?
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Old 01-14-2011, 02:36 PM
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Some dirt
Funny, but also sad...
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Old 01-14-2011, 03:51 PM
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And who knows what else that I have forgotten about.
No paint?

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Old 01-14-2011, 03:56 PM
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Old 01-14-2011, 04:24 PM
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My io-360 3 blade catto, leather etc weighed in at 1088, so I'm going with 1079.
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Old 01-14-2011, 04:27 PM
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Default weight gain with age

I have added various components over the past 6 months, and kept pretty good track of them. I figured I added 12 lb of components. I just reweighed the plane, and it gained 20 lb. How does that happen?

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Tomorrow we will roll the -9 across the scales (Same ones we used to do the original W&B), back in 2007 the -9 came in at 990 lbs empty.

Here are the major changes that I have made, which might impact the W&B:

Added Dynon auto pilot (5 lbs)
EICommander (5 oz, call it half a pound with the wiring.)
Replaced the O-290-D2 with an ECi O-360 (21 lbs heavier)
Leather interior (8 lbs)
James holey cowl and cooling plenum (Weight unknown)
Some tie down rings in the baggage compartment
Some dirt
And who knows what else that I have forgotten about.

I?m guessing my new empty weight will be around 1025 to 1030 lbs.

What say ye, what do you think my new empty weight will be?
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Old 01-14-2011, 05:05 PM
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Bill,
We'll keep it to nice round numbers...I'm guessing 1047.5
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Old 01-15-2011, 02:26 PM
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If you said 1,068 you would have been right It flew today and everything looked good...
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