REFLECTOR: First Flight Of N34CV

Mike Dawson medawson250 at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 22 18:08:30 CDT 2011


I too took 12 years to get in the air. N104DD did a first flight August 7th this year with a Chevy ZZ383 V8 . Congratulations all around!
What oil pressure sender to what gauge are you using? Direct pressure reading is 50lbs on startup but my Dynon system reads low???

Michael E Dawson
ATCI CFII


On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:44 PM, "Velocity xlfg" <velocityxl at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Lady's and Gentlemen
> I had my first flight today. A bit unexpected but was planned flight. Flight lasted about 30 minutes
> Got in some slow flight and a few gentle turns.  Thanks go out to John at velocity for the training
> I got last week . I believe it really help prepare me for this flight. Had a bit of a Oil light issue to work out
> and a blinking sump light,I though I really had the sump light figured out. This project has taken  12 years
> to get to this point but did have a few years off as my kids take a lot of time. Plane flew flawlessly,
>  what a stable airplane the velocity is.
>  
> My LT1 ran a bit rough in the morning but after a few changes  smoothed out nicely next step will be to figure out
> the oil pressure issue so I can start to relax a little on the seat to figure a few other things out. Cooling seemed to
> be good but I did not push the issue until the oil light / pressure is figured out.
>  
> Ron
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