The temp thing sounds normal, especially w/all the ground wk. On an 85 deg day my oil temps run 215-220 in cruise flight. Just be sure u have a good ram air sys into the oil cooler.-- Congrats!!
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:32:35 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Brian Kraut <eng...@earthlink.net> writes: > I am happy to report that N93PC took its first leap into the air > yesterday afternoon since I bought it and rebuilt it. I had > everything planned for the past few days and I snuck to the airport > during a long lunch so my wife wouldn't be worried to death. I gave > a co worker the phone number to the tower and asked him to call and > see what happened to me if I wasn't back in a few hours. > > The worst part of the flight was the drive to the airport. I had > more butterflies in my stomach than when I got married or when my > son was born. My legs and arms were numb and tingly and I was cold > and shivering even though it was about 85 degrees. After I landed I > noticed that my entire shirt was drenched with sweat. > > The flight itself was pretty uneventfull. I spent more time on the > ground than I wanted because the airport was pretty busy. I had to > wait for three other planes in front of me when I got to the runup > area and I had to wait for three to land after I got to the hold > short line. The tower wanted to get everyone else out of the > pattern so I would have two runways to myself just in case. > > Takeoff was pretty simple. I had been doing high speed taxi runs > for a week. This was the first one at full power so the tail came > up pretty quick and the plane was very easy to control. When it > wanted to fly I just pulled back a little and off I went. I had > flown some with Mark Strothers and Jim Faughn so I knew exactly what > to expect in the air. The plane was well behaved and easy to fly. > I climbed at about 85 knots and started a left turn at 600'. I > pretty much just kept going around with left turns up to 2,500' and > stayed over the airport. I would have gone up to 5,000, but the > ceilings were at about 3,000. > > The oil temperature did get close to redline about 2,000', but the > CHT stayed about 40 degrees under red line. I suspect that this was > from the long ground run followed by the climb. The temps were a > lot better after I leveled off and reduced power. If anyone cares > to comment on weather or not it is normal to get near redline after > a 2,000' climb after running 20 minutes on the ground on an 85 > degree day it would be appreciated. > > Once I got to altitude I pulled back to about 2,500 RPM and just > kept going in rectangles. I found that the KR really likes to turn > left with just me in it. I planned on normally keeping my wing > tanks empty unless I was on a long cross country, but now I think I > might just keep the right tank full when I fly alone. I made sure > that the engine was still happy at idle and I did a few approaches > to stalls just until it started to get mushy. I was pretty > surprised at how much the KR would slow down and still keep flying. > My airspeed indicator got down around 45 knots, but I don't know how > accurate it is yet and I didn't look at the GPS. > > After about 40 minutes I got cleared to get back in the pattern when > I was at 2,200 feet over the departure end of the runway. I > throttled back to about 1,500 and went out a bit before I came back > on downwind. I had to do a few circles to loose some altitude on > the long downwind because the KR glides so good. I did try slipping > some and the KR seemed to slip pretty good. I set up a long final > that was high enough that I could glide in if I had to. > > The landing was pretty easy. I had a lot of grass before the runway > so I got low after crossing the airport fence and I had a landing > on the airport secured and I kept in a little power so I could touch > down right at the threshold. I started my flare a little late, but > I only did one 6" bounce. After I was on the ground I raised the > tail again until it slowed and I was home free. I have read alot > about KRs floating forever in ground effect, but I didn't get much > float at all. It landed pretty much like a Cherokee, probably > because I was able to get a slow stabilized approach long before the > end of the runway. > > My overall impression is that the KR is a joy to fly and I can't > wait till I fly it again. I still can't get the KR grin off my > face. > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
