REFLECTOR: N151AJ first flight

John Dibble aminetech at bluefrog.com
Sun Jul 28 07:29:32 CDT 2013


On 7/25/2013 12:46 AM, Andrew Ellzey wrote:
> N151AJ, Velocity XLRG made its first flight late this afternoon at 
> 7:50 pm at ROG, Rogers Arkansas airport. I was pilot in command for 
> this first flight which lasted 1/2 hour. My aircraft flew quite well, 
> my flight controls were very light, any adverse movement came from me 
> not the aircraft. Once I lightened up on the control inputs, it flew 
> like a dream. I climbed to 1000 AGL and stayed in the pattern for 
> several circles around the airport, watching all engine indications 
> for any problems, and just getting use to the light flight controls. I 
> opted to leave the gear down for this entire flight, didn't want a 
> gear up landing on my first flight. I really had to fight the 
> temptation to pick them up. My #5 CHT bumped redline, which I have set 
> to 450F, (Lycoming IO-540 operators manual states 500F MAX) once or 
> twice, early on after takeoff. I was however able to lower the nose 
> and cool it down pretty quick. After this initial redline it seemed to 
> fall in line with the other cylinders, maybe 20 degrees higher than 
> the others.
The higher temp could indicate detonation.  Do you have an EI?

John

> I have two oil coolers in series, one in the front, standard Velocity 
> nose NACA scoop, and one in the rear. I had already completed two high 
> speed taxi test about 40 minutes earlier, so everything was already 
> warmed up, before I even taxied to the end of the runway, oil temp was 
> already about 230F before I started my take off roll. My Oil 
> temperature quickly cooled down to 210 degrees and stayed there 
> through the whole flight.  I did a go around on my first landing 
> attempt, a last minute gust at the end of the runway pushed me off to 
> the  left side of centerline,  in about a 15 deg. crab. I probably 
> could have saved the landing, but elected to do a go around to try it 
> again. Second time was a charm, touching down on both mains straight 
> down the runway, I even held the nose off for a light touchdown. Yea 
> it surprised me also. I forgot to save the flight data on my BM EFIS 
> One, so my memory will have to do for this first flight. I had my wife 
> video this first flight, but either my camera, and or her unsteady 
> hands make some of them too bad to share. This link should allow 
> everyone to view the takeoff and landing.
> http://www.seagateshare.com/share/seagatedasbackup/share/velocity-man/N151AJ%20Velocity%20Reflector%20share/
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> Andrew Ellzey
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> 479-531-5139 (iPhone)
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