A Wee bit Nippy!

Well, it was sunny in Minne today when Andi and I decided that we had been cooped up long enough. There was an airport diner in Wisconsin that needed some business...... The temp was 0F.....

-2500 density altitude...oh boy


Pretty nice day, but really cold - electric vests and gloves in the cockpit!


Diner at Eau Claire serves Spotted Cow! Andi put one down and tried to coach Bernie on the the finer points of the cross-wind landing back at Anoka....


On the way home we heard Brad and Vince playing tail chase in their -6 and -7, so we were not the only crazy ones!!

Great day to fly!!

Come on Pete. Trip of such magnitude and only THREE pictures? Show us that Spotted Cow show the tail chase. And who are Brad and Vince btw?

Gotta find my glasses. Thought you ate spotted owl.

Vlad - hope this helps:


Also, when doing tail chase, Vince is usually the one in front.

And yes, Pete is exactly right - it was cold! I saw -6º F OAT at one point.

Well,

Tiny drift.

I was sipping tea, reading The Times way above you at FL400.....

Came over from Manchester UK to Cancun - very strange route due to the jetstreams - 11 hours 2 minutes

North over Glasgow, Iceland, Greenland, GCFA, Chicago, Milwaukee, Memphis, New Orleans and out to the gulf.

Sat in -70c for around 4 hours over Greenland, had to bring the tip fuel into the wing tanks as it got down close to its freeze point.

What was interesting was the way the ground temps rose as we crossed 49N.

-11c at Chicago, -3 at Milwaukee, +10 at Memphis, +18 at New Orleans.

Having operated our 7 at sub zero temps, its interesting all the niggly things that cause problems - misting canopy, poor heater etc but boy do they go well when it's cold

Anyhow, it's 28c and sunny here - back to Blighty tomorrow, hoping for around 8:10 with a tailwind.

ChiefPilot said:

Vlad - hope this helps:

Also, when doing tail chase, Vince is usually the one in front.

And yes, Pete is exactly right - it was cold! I saw -6? F OAT at one point.

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Well, I let Brad start in my 6 anyways...

Vince
RV-7

Did Pete mention it was cold. Very very cold!!My oil temp got up to 121 F. I really need to put on aileron boot covers.

They will help Bernie, I did try to talk you into putting them in.....

petehowell said:

On the way home we heard Brad and Vince playing tail chase in their -6 and -7, so we were not the only crazy ones!!

Great day to fly!!

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that would be the Brad who was supposed to send me a message about what time he was heading out so I could go with him, right? yeah, I thought so. That rat.

bweiss said:

Did Pete mention it was cold. Very very cold!!My oil temp got up to 121 F. I really need to put on aileron boot covers.

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and baggage compartment corrugation seals, flap linkage seals, stick seals (arguably the most important ones!), some sort of rear slider seal, oil cooler valve, etc..