11/28/2007
I now have 12.8 hours on the Hobbs meter.
I added a 1 degree shim to the right landing gear last week. The plane had a tendency to swerve to the right at touchdown. Just eyeballing it the wheel showed it to be toed out so I lifted and leveled the plane and verified this to be the case. I ordered and installed a 1 degree shim. Landings are a less exciting now.
I repainted the cowl since it had scratches from the accident.
On Monday I flew to Navasota and did a few touch and goes. Today I went to the practice area and did a climb from 2000 feet to 5000. My plan was to record the position relative to a GPS fix, altitude and time every 500 feet. I could not write fast enough and keep the plane at my planned 95 knots so I only recorded time and distance at 2000 and 5000. The time was 2 minutes 4 seconds and the distance was 2.6 miles. I tried to climb 90 degrees to the wind. After doing the math the average rate of climb was 1451 fpm. The climb gradient was 1154 feet/mile.
I did one landing at Brenham and captured these engine readings on the way back. Once enroute I throttled back and leaned the mixture to 8.1 GPH. IAS was 148 knots.
After plotting this it is very clear I need to do something about the huge delta between #1 and #3 CHTs.
