{"id":1259,"date":"2014-11-27T05:44:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T10:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2014-11-27T05:44:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T10:44:20","slug":"november-19-2014-flight-testing-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"November 19, 2014 – Flight Testing – Day #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flight testing – Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Getting into and out of the 2400′ runway at Smoketown airport is a manageable concern. Per my previous post – I was up here picking up my airplane after extensive paint work.<\/p>\n

First takeoff was downhill with a tailwind, as I mentioned. In my mind it was favorable to upwind with an obstacle on a 2400′ runway. Traffic showed up on subsequent tries, however, and I didn’t want a new pilot in a C150 doing tailwind takeoffs; nor did I want to try to explain why I was taking off on runway 10 and landing on 28. All remaining takeoffs were uphill and over the obstacle. No problem with two engines on a cold day. Each time I took off uphill on 28 – the road crew working on the departure end stopped work – either to watch with excitement or run for self-preservation. Not sure which.<\/p>\n

After the first flight, both shops are working together to evaluate the problem. They both have worked on the flight controls, so I ask who is leading. That’d be the paint shop. Very important to know who has the ball. <\/p>\n

I explain the flight experience i just had with my first attempt to take it home. They discussed what it might be, and decided to adjust aileron trim tabs and rigging. <\/p>\n

We do another flight test – me flying solo – and there is no improvement. I call my mechanic down in Georgetown because I trust him – he knows this airplane in and out. The ailerons are still the leading suspects, so the two A&Ps at Smoketown prepare to get to work on evaluating and adjusting the controls.<\/p>\n

They’d like to know details and even have pictures. I’m not going to do that while paying attention flying an out-of-trim airplane into and out of a short strip, so Kendall the paint shop manager decides to come along. Kendall is both a pilot and an A&P, so I’m very comfortable with that.<\/p>\n

I let everyone know I couldn’t keep my in-laws sitting in the car forever, however, so I’d commit to about another hour of flight testing. I believe I did a total of five flights on this day, but we made little progress adjusting ailerons and trim tabs. I was disappointed.<\/p>\n

At this point, I called it a day. The two A&Ps were time limited today and later in the week. I was off the next two days, and than had reserve and flying after that. It might be that we cannot get together until Dec 3rd to try again. <\/p>\n

Oh well – safety first.<\/p>\n

…. I’ll follow up with a Nov 21st flight description that we managed to fit in there on the next blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flight testing – Day 1 Getting into and out of the 2400′ runway at Smoketown airport is a manageable concern. Per my previous post – I was up here picking up my airplane after extensive paint work. First takeoff was downhill with a tailwind, as I mentioned. In my mind it was favorable to upwind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-home-page","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}