http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7 Building an airplane day by day, step by step Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:14:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Took a day trip yesterday over to Spokane. Picked up my friend Steve at Paine Field and then cruised over Stevens Pass to Spokane. PAE to SFF was about 1.5 hours burning 7.5 gph in cruise. Not bad. We hung out with our friend Jeff and checked out his new hangar ... http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7/2008/06/29/1259 Been a long time since the last update. I've been busy with many things including: the annual condition inspection, getting the plane ready for a big trip to Tucson, and flying to Tucson for a week to visit my folks with my daughter. The condition inspection went great. It took a ... http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7/2008/04/21/1258 I've actually been flying the last two days, a highly unusual event around here in the winter. Yesterday was marginal, but I managed to find a hole in the clouds. Today was absolutely outstanding. I could see all the way from Mount Baker to The Sisters in Oregon. That's about ... http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7/2008/02/17/1257 It's been too long since I updated this log. The weather in Seattle this winter has been crummy. At least from a flying perspective. I've been getting in short flights when I can, but mostly working on finishing up the leg and wheel fairings. I'll post some more pictures on ... http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7/2008/02/09/1256 We had some terrific weather over the weekend. What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than by flying around the patch for a while? The sky was really clear and made for some beautiful views. image3122o image3123o image3124o image3126o The air was really steady, so I did some calibration work. Way back during my ... http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7/2007/11/26/1255 Adele had no school on Friday and our arrangements for her day fell through, so I took the day off. Weather was perfect, so might as well go flying. She had been asking to go down to Mount Saint Helens for a while, so that's where we went. This is ... http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7/2007/10/28/1254 It's been a while since I updated this log, but then it's been a while since I've been flying. 3 weeks ago I removed the P-mags from the engine and shipped them back to Texas for the latest firmware update. The version I had was supposedly rock solid, but I ... http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7/2007/10/21/1253 Finally the weather forecast was wrong in our favor. The Labor Day weekend was supposed to be cloudy and rainy, but I woke up to sunshine on Saturday. Time for some flying. There was virtually no wind and only very high, wispy clouds. Perfect conditions for trying some flying over the ... http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7/2007/09/01/1252 I haven't done much flying lately. We were on a family vacation for a week involving a sailboat rather than the plane. That combined with some really cruddy weekend weather lately has conspired against me. Finally on Sunday I was able to go flying. The clouds didn't look too friendly, but ... http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7/2007/08/27/1251 After a few days of working too late, I was finally able to get Mom up for a flight today. We went down and around Mount Rainier. image2948o The NW side of the mountain was a little cloudy, but it cleared up nicely on the other side. Very bumpy for must of ... http://www.dualrudder.com/rv7/2007/08/11/1250