REFLECTOR: Second First Flight Today

John Dibble aminetech at bluefrog.com
Mon Mar 25 07:09:00 CDT 2013


Great news!  If your cylinders are painted, that will make a lot of 
smoke.  I've never had smoke from RTV.

John

On 3/24/2013 11:01 PM, Brian Michalk wrote:
> Four years ago, I had my first flight on March 28th, which ended up in 
> a cornfield due to an engine out.
>
> Today, I had my second first flight.  I've been battling a list of 
> squawks, and finally got most of them ironed out.  I made two flights 
> today, with the first one cut short because of high CHT's. I landed 
> and discovered a disconnected colling duct to the plenum. I fixed 
> that, and went for a second flight.  I cut that one short because I 
> thought the smell of smoke was getting stronger.  I think there's some 
> RTV and other materials that are just outgassing, and will make odors 
> until they are good and baked. After that flight, I was just too tired 
> to go up again, and called it a day.
>
> I still have some issues to address, but the important thing is that 
> now I can actually begin working the flight tests.  I think I'll 
> change my sig to test pilot now.
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