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Old 04-04-2014, 07:33 AM
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Excellent Bruce. Good luck. I'm sure it'll all go smoothly and we'll soon have another bird added to the family.
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Old 04-05-2014, 09:56 AM
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So Bruce,
Did you get anyone over to help you go over your plane? I think that is one of the best ideas I have seen here. The guy that had the inspection party last month - what a great way to make sure you have done everything possible to check things out.

Best of luck on your flight tomorrow - have fun!
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Old 04-05-2014, 11:39 PM
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Inspection tomorrow, first flight some point thereafter. I still have another session of transition training to go. I'm also still trying to figure out my transmit issues with my Dynon COM. I'm down to either the antenna or ground plane. An appointment with the radio shop is forthcoming.

I had Derek, Bill and Pete come by and take a look. We found and fixed several items. I added some torque seal on various bolts/nuts, redid a few zip ties on the EGT/CHT lines, put a thinner washer on an aileron bellcrank bolt to get the required threads showing, opened up the trim wiring hole in the elevator to fix some light binding/scraping on the snap bushing that exits the aft HS spar, and redid some safety wiring.

I was pulling out some of the covers in the cabin for inspection and caught a slight whiff of avgas. Found this!



The connections on the fuel filter from EFII aren't that great since you have to tighten down the brass nut to squeeze on the underlying rubber washer/gasket. I obviously didn't have this side tight enough. I'll be switching this out soon to something more secure (and a filter that is cleanable). Any recommendations on better fuel filters?

Paperwork is all done, and logbooks filled out! Wish me luck. I hope to follow up this post with a picture of me holding a pink slip.
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Old 04-06-2014, 06:45 AM
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Good luck Bruce! When you find that cleanable filter be sure to let us know. Lots of us have those filters too!

Darin
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Old 04-06-2014, 04:16 PM
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Inspection went smoothly! No issues.

Now on towards the first flight.
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Old 04-06-2014, 04:34 PM
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No issues! Holy smokes. Nice work. Nice smile!
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Old 04-06-2014, 05:11 PM
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Nice work, nice airplane. Enjoy phase 1
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Old 04-06-2014, 05:26 PM
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Nice work Bruce. From a quality, technology and documentation standpoint you have one of the nicest RV-9A's in existence. (If not of all the models)
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Old 04-06-2014, 06:05 PM
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Well done. I've very much enjoyed the reports on your progress.
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Old 04-06-2014, 06:32 PM
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Great job Bruce! Hurry and finish your training, it will be good to get another RV in the air.

See you at the next fly-in, only this time you can fly your own plane!!!

Congrats,

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