rickofudall
Joined: 19 Sep 2009
Posts: 1392
Location: Udall, KS, USA
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 Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:59 pm Post subject: Happy Kolb New Year |
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While the rest of the country is snowed under, flooding, or hitchhiking to Oz, Kansas is under a range fire warning even with below freezing temperatures. Go figure.By three o'clock the thermometer finally made it up to freezing and I rolled Zulu Delta out of the hangar and fueled up. Took a long time to get the 582 up to temp even with part of the radiator blocked off, but the needle of the coolant temp gauge finally crawled up into the green arc and we were off. In the cold dry air I was getting 1000 feet per minute so I throttled back and cruise climbed once I hit 500 feet, stayed low and tried to make shallow power on approaches to keep the engine warm. I had on enough to stay nice and warm, but I didn't like throttling up on a touch and go with the temp needle down around 120 so I made one of each flap setting, did a lap around the Duchy and called it a day. Not a bad week for winter. I got in an hour on Thursday to close out 2010 flying in shirtsleeve weather into a beautiful sunset. Two days later it's a clear blue sky thanks to a polar air mass that brought temps down to single digits for New Years Eve. Got the year off to a good start, though.
Rick Girard
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Zulu Delta
Kolb Mk IIIC
582 Gray head
4.00 C gearbox
3 blade WD
Thanks, Homer GBYM
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
- G.K. Chesterton
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