I’ve had a couple of minor issues. The cabin heat push pull, carb heat, and break lock. The cables are bending the instrument panel, it is carbon fiber. I noticed some stress cracking. I asked Chris Wallen to paint some large diameter washers black and we put them on the cable in front and behind of each of the push pull cables. We did the cabin heat first it was the one looking the worst. When Chris removed the cable to put on the washers he noticed the stress cracking was in the clear coat on the instrument panel. He remounted it and it is much stiffer and now comes out perpendicular to the instrument panel. We will do the remaining two cables once we complete flying off the hours. We did an oil change at 10 Hours. The flap cable came off of one pulley, thank goodness it was on the ground. Corbin Welch who use to work at the Factory, and is now working for the Repair Facility at Clemson Airport got the cable put back on. The biggest problem we had was the tach did not show any RPM, it turned out the ground cable for the tach needed a 5K ohm resistor put in line.
Chris did an exceptional job! It flies very nicely. It’s straight & level, no rudder trim needed, flies straight and level. Climbs like a beast. It is about 10 mph slower than my old Kitfox. However, after I get some real stol landing practice it will land and T/Os virtually anywhere. I like the way it flies, and it doesn’t float down the runway on landings like my Kitfox did. If you need to land on a spot, and your proficient with the plane you will be capable of landing it.
Clark in AZ wrote:Nice vids, thanks for taking the time to post them. She sure looks good in flight! You're almost done 15 to go. Is it everything you thought it would be? Any problems?
Clark