frankh
Well Known Member
This incident was totally my fault and it was just bad enough to get my attention.
To the more experienced pilots don't even bother reading this, to those of us mid rangers and below you might get something out of this. I have a total of 20 hours RV time and 500 or so TT.
I have a Dynon EFIS and engine monitor. I had just figured out how to display the engine monitor on my flight display...very cool except I had not swapped it back before I entered the pattern, new engine, break in I was more flying the engine monitor than anything else....Not even thinking about it.
When I came to make the turn to final with a stiff X (the way that forces you to make a steeper turn base to final)wind I looked down my slip indicator was not where I expected it to be..I.e on the screen right in front of me. Knowing that a lot of RV accidents is the classic stall/spin made worse by being uncoordinated I instinctively shallowed the turn and got blown way off the wind line.
I would'nt mind but the Pictorial pilot was the next instrument over and it has a mechanical slip guage, but I wasn't used to looking for it there.
A go around was in order but I fed in the power very gently because I was afraid of ripping the flaps off...This was also a mistake...I kept 80 kts the whole time I was never in any real danger but it was enough that I thought it worth sharing.
Frank
To the more experienced pilots don't even bother reading this, to those of us mid rangers and below you might get something out of this. I have a total of 20 hours RV time and 500 or so TT.
I have a Dynon EFIS and engine monitor. I had just figured out how to display the engine monitor on my flight display...very cool except I had not swapped it back before I entered the pattern, new engine, break in I was more flying the engine monitor than anything else....Not even thinking about it.
When I came to make the turn to final with a stiff X (the way that forces you to make a steeper turn base to final)wind I looked down my slip indicator was not where I expected it to be..I.e on the screen right in front of me. Knowing that a lot of RV accidents is the classic stall/spin made worse by being uncoordinated I instinctively shallowed the turn and got blown way off the wind line.
I would'nt mind but the Pictorial pilot was the next instrument over and it has a mechanical slip guage, but I wasn't used to looking for it there.
A go around was in order but I fed in the power very gently because I was afraid of ripping the flaps off...This was also a mistake...I kept 80 kts the whole time I was never in any real danger but it was enough that I thought it worth sharing.
Frank
