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Originally Posted by mike in phx
You just cant find limits on the ground in your hangar and it takes a long time to work up to the most extreme limits
Babysteps til you find your personal limits
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Mike, I agree with you regarding testing everything performance wise... Except for pushing to the edge of a flutter margin. All professional test pilots know this. With flutter, you can't push to the edge and stop when you start getting close.
It either flutters or it doesn't. If it does, you probably need to just about 100% plan on exiting the airplane.
I also agree that we are all test pilots in the first 25-40 hrs, but there is one big difference... all those hrs are flying within a flight envelope that has been pretty well proven by thousands of RV's having flown 10s of thousands of hours. This high alt., high speed flying you are doing, could very possible be a first for RV-6 to do so. Ever.
In my mind, that makes it quite different.