I flew the plane today for a nice 0.7 flight and a now 2.1 hours in total. With a nice Carb fitted and good mixtures it climbed out with temps all in the green. The CHT's never exceeded 400f and it climbed out great. I took it up to about 5000 ft and circled the airfield before a quick fly over the house to wave to the wife and daughter as a sort of victory lap. I have to tell you I was very happy upon landing as the whole flight was perfect. Dodging a few low clouds here and there saw me level out and start to see some good numbers on the panel.
The 3rd pic is a bit hard to see but straight and level at about 29-30 " I was TAS about 129 kts. Sweeeeeet. The first two screens I was on a gradual climb out of about 200-300 fpm.
I'm so far really happy about the performance. Hopefully after 20-30 hours the engine will cool down some more like they usually do. I have a good positive feeling about it all now and looking forward to seeing these 40 test hours behind me.
I added an aileron trim tab that seems to be a bit large now. At the faster cruise I was at today, now temps are under control, the wing wants to go the other way funnily. I will reduce the size of the tab next time I'm out at the field and that should sort that out. I believe I will also need to add some more spring tension to the elevator "dial a trim". I just can't seem to get enough up trim for any flight operation so far. I have been flying with full up trim for the whole flight so need to get onto that asap. It will be nice when it flies hands-free after being all set up properly. Now the engine is running like it should I can start to concentrate on those sorts of things.
So I only flew the 0.7 today but I think I will just do the first oil change after the engine rebuild now. This will see me able to fly off the next 5 hours before it's due again as part of the break in procedure.
Happy days.
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