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LIKE2LOOP(at)aol.com
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 Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:06 am Post subject: Sun n Fun - Olsons Departing. |
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Saturday, waiting for the LAL to reopen for departure.
The smiles tell the story (ok, i am a dentist), the plane looks great too!
The climb out was incredible, in a minute, they more then doubled the altitude of the
Cessna that was ahead of them, and then left the spam can driver way behind.
I had to go home in my spam can.
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Tim(at)MyRV10.com
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject: Sun n Fun - Olsons Departing. |
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Hey Steve, Thanks for taking the photos. Send whatever you can
to me. For those waiting for pics from me, sorry to break the
bad news but I forgot my camera on day 2, and day 1 I was stuck
by the plane almost all day. Hopefully people can send their
pics and we can all put together the highlights of SNF for -10
builders. Ed's overhead console is probably the #1 item. I
got to see Henkjan's door latches. Looked all over for Coss Aviation,
but I couldn't find them for the life of me. I think they must
not have had a booth, but were there, because Van's did say they
talked to them briefly.
As for Steve's photos and comments, I'll expand a tad...
The Raptor was awesome to see in flight.
I didn't know they cleaned up the plane in the a.m. but am
very thankful they did. It was really dusty there. On the flight
home I had to clean my screens and then use the wet wipe to clean
the glareshield.
Now for the best part.... On that takeoff Steve mentioned, I
didn't even know he was watching, but I didn't try to climb
very much at all....just stick with traffic. But when you
want up, you get up. I got placed behind a Yak for takeoff.
Not only did I keep up with him on the departure, but when
he started climbing for 4K'+, I took the same arc and kept
up with him in the climb...maybe even gained. He may have
been powered back, but I easily outclimbed many of the departing
planes. On the way home today (specs to come later, but about
7.25 hours from Leesburg KLEE to Menomonie KLUM), I climbed
out of Louisville and it was shocking to me that I was passing
through 5500' by the time 3 minutes on the flight timer kicked
in. I was amazed and couldn't believe it was doing that
much better than my old plane. I can climb faster at 9000'
Density Altitude than I could off the ground on a regular day in my old
plane.
You guys building are gonna love your -10's.
Oh yeah, and after doing some careful recording on the way down, I
was able to check over 4 fuel fills and see that my flow calibration
was consistently off the same percentage. I tweaked it in before I
left today and on my last leg, my totalizer flow was EXACTLY the
same as my added fuel, to the EXACT tenth of a gallon, over almost
44 gallons. I'm lovin' this cross-country stuff.
Tim
Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD - Flying
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LIKE2LOOP(at)aol.com wrote:
| Quote: | Saturday, waiting for the LAL to reopen for departure.
The smiles tell the story (ok, i am a dentist), the plane looks great too!
The climb out was incredible, in a minute, they more then doubled the
altitude of the
Cessna that was ahead of them, and then left the spam can driver way
behind.
I had to go home in my spam can.
Do Not Archive
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