Prior to my first flight I did things similar to what Joe Horton and Mark
Langford report. I did lots of slow speed taxi, then progressively higher
speeds on the runway with many trips up and down the runway with the nose
wheel held varying amounts off the pavement. I fixed lots of gripes betw
Morning Guys,We have been seeing all this information about first flights and
it is all good. But first things first. I don't know where or how but I had
decided to do 10 hours of taxi testing before first flight. Taxi testing is
when I found that the carb did not like ram air. Taxi test is when
Joe wrote made very good points about ironing out the problems during
taxi testing. That's invaluable, and I did that as well, although I
didn't realize it until reading Joe's post. I did about 70 "tail-up"
runs down the runway to get familiar with the transition from flight to
tail-down con
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