KirkGrovesRV8
Well Known Member
Hi Guys and Gals! 
To those who are interested I just wanted to give a little update on my sweetie "DQ"
Well she has 6 hrs on her now, and my first impressions were right on!!! She is one sweet bird. All the temps have stayed nice and cool and I have been running her hard. And at 6500' today running WOT at 2500rpm I was seeing a consistent 174kts TAS and I saw ground speeds as high as 195KTS!!!!!!!. Now I am sorry I am not a test pilot so I don't know how accurate these numbers are, but as a regular smuck who loves airplanes and is totally in love with this airplane, I will never be able to go back to 90kts in the citabria .
So any way I think the nice cool temps and nice high speeds are in big part to the carbon plenum I have. The only hiccup so far has been my AF-2500 engine monitor went a little nuts on me today, I was flying along nice and happy and the AF-2500 started telling me my oil temp was 303deg well I knew that was not right so I put her on the ground and placed a call to Advanced Flight and within 20 min the problem was solved turns out the brain box does not like to have aluminum chips in it, so a quick cleaning and a couple shots of air and all was well.
Other than that I am still working as hard as I can so I can have as much time off as I can to fly.
Sorry if this was a lame six hour report but to those who have flown you know how it feels to those yet to fly keep going your going to love it!!!
To those who are interested I just wanted to give a little update on my sweetie "DQ"
Well she has 6 hrs on her now, and my first impressions were right on!!! She is one sweet bird. All the temps have stayed nice and cool and I have been running her hard. And at 6500' today running WOT at 2500rpm I was seeing a consistent 174kts TAS and I saw ground speeds as high as 195KTS!!!!!!!. Now I am sorry I am not a test pilot so I don't know how accurate these numbers are, but as a regular smuck who loves airplanes and is totally in love with this airplane, I will never be able to go back to 90kts in the citabria
.So any way I think the nice cool temps and nice high speeds are in big part to the carbon plenum I have. The only hiccup so far has been my AF-2500 engine monitor went a little nuts on me today, I was flying along nice and happy and the AF-2500 started telling me my oil temp was 303deg well I knew that was not right so I put her on the ground and placed a call to Advanced Flight and within 20 min the problem was solved
turns out the brain box does not like to have aluminum chips in it, so a quick cleaning and a couple shots of air and all was well.Other than that I am still working as hard as I can so I can have as much time off as I can to fly.
Sorry if this was a lame six hour report
but to those who have flown you know how it feels to those yet to fly keep going your going to love it!!!