Today's goals were to explore how the aircraft handles as it approaches a full-on stall. I'm looking for subtle clues like airframe buffeting, pitch control changes, etc. I want to make sure that I'm having to hold constant back pressure on the stick to get the airplane down to the stall, rather than having to start pushing the nose down as she prepares to stall. I want to make sure that the nose is going to actually drop through the horizon, rather than enter the stall flat which would be an indication that the Center of Gravity is too far aft. Other items on the to-do list is to compare the mechanical tachometer to the digital tach I temporarily installed up front to see what if any error the mechanical one has.


After flight #6 I put a half-turn of tension on all the flying wires to see if I could get them to quit vibrating quite so much. As I'll point out in the video, they're still dancing around out there, but as I load the wing it stops.. so I believe that is telling me I still need to tighten them up some.


On the to-do list before the next flight will be, replace the tachometer with a brand new one, tighten the flying wires a bit more, try to isolate my headset mic from the cockpit noise some more (the squelch issue is driving me crazy) and turn the idle up just a bit. As the engine is breaking in, the idle seems to be dropping a bit, and it was worrying me just a bit as I was working into the stalls to hear the engine really chugging slow- to the point where I was concerned that she might actually stop.


The horizon reference wasn't all that great today due to haze, so I opted not to explore spin entries on this flight.

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