Stalls
Ended up burning up most of the day waiting around for a delivery. Didn’t get down to the airport until 4:30pm, but I made the most of it. I flew around for 1.4 hours. Here’s my gratuitous shot of the mountains.
Here’s me bombing around at 8,000′.
And here’s a shot of Snoqualmie Falls that I shot right before heading in.
I didn’t have time to really plan out the flight, so I just messed around. I found the highest altitude where I could still get 24″ of manifold pressure. That ended up being 6,000′. I turned on the autopilot and waited for it to stabilize. The EFIS read 147 knots true airspeed. Not bad. I don’t even know if the airspeed is reading correctly yet. Supposedly I’ll pick up another 15-20 knots with the wheel pants and fairings, so this is looking good.
I flew up to 8,000′ and did some more fully developed stalls. I waited for the plane to actually break both with flaps up and down. I turned on the AOA indicator and it seems to be pretty well calibrated. It was giving me a warning about 5-10 knots before stall.
Cylinder head temps seemed to be lower as well at 360°F, but that might have been due to the outside air temp of around 20. After messing around at 8,000′ for a while, I swooped down into the Snoqualmie River Valley, flying 1500 AGL or so (it’s all fields) up to the falls. That was a kick. I’m lovin’ this plane.