Nice night flight...

[denverpilot]

1.3 hours, 7 full stops at both KAPA and KBJC.

Everyone was festive on the radio saying, "Happy Thanksgiving!" The city looked great.

Me and my goofy grin and my headlamp were all set for some fun after a few weeks of being too busy to go up!

Made a few of my best landings of the year. Why does that always happen when you haven't been up for three weeks?

One no-flapper in particular looked like the airplane was doing its own auto-land. Just nailed the centerline, squeaked the mains on, held the nosewheel off, then it settled perfectly.

You gotta love it when a plan comes together...

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[murphey]

FTG-1V6-PUB (Lunch)-FTG. Absolutely fantastic weather today. Clear, sunny, no cadets flying, only a handful of Doss at PUB....

And then I get home, download the engine monitor and notice #3 cylinder was up to 470 for about 4 minutes during the initial climb....no more flying this weekend, need to talk to the shop & ECI on Monday.

oh bother.

 

[denverpilot]

Hopefully just baffle work on your new engine! Yikes.

I guess the good and the bad of not owning a JPI is that I wouldn't know if a cylinder was having a subtle problem... until I'm lining up on the farm field with a dead mill not turning, or vibrating so bad after blowing a hole or sucking a valve, that it's trying to rip itself out of the engine mounts.

Good luck on finding the source of the over-temp.

Are you still in the break-in period, and how are you handling keeping the beast at higher power settings at our altitude? Any plans to wander lower over Kansas for a few hours just to get everything broken in correctly?

 

[Anthony]

Nice. Did you bomb Boulder?

 

[murphey]

Hopefully just baffle work on your new engine! Yikes.

I guess the good and the bad of not owning a JPI is that I wouldn't know if a cylinder was having a subtle problem... until I'm lining up on the farm field with a dead mill not turning, or vibrating so bad after blowing a hole or sucking a valve, that it's trying to rip itself out of the engine mounts.

Good luck on finding the source of the over-temp.

Are you still in the break-in period, and how are you handling keeping the beast at higher power settings at our altitude? Any plans to wander lower over Kansas for a few hours just to get everything broken in correctly?

The first 8 hours were mostly 6500, a bit at 7500. Shop is open today (just called) and they're going to take a look at it. If I'm lucky, it's just the baffles. I need to check for scorched paint and such on the cylinder itself. If I'm not lucky, another week or two without an airplane while a new cylinder is installed.

For those of you not familiar with the Denver area, ground is 5500, so 6500 is about as low as I can go. (all of a sudden, the "Grease" soundtrack is going thru my head....)

rats.

 

[gkainz]

We just put a new engine in our Saratoga. Break in flights (after an hour circling over BJC) is to head east and maybe even descend.

Ah, the smell of cooking paint.

 

[Skylane81E]

We just put a new engine in our Saratoga. Break in flights (after an hour circling over BJC) is to head east and maybe even descend.

Ah, the smell of cooking paint.

Everytime I put a fresh engine on I have to inform folks, that strange solvent type smell is normal

 

[denverpilot]

We just put a new engine in our Saratoga. Break in flights (after an hour circling over BJC) is to head east and maybe even descend.

Ah, the smell of cooking paint.

Yeah. We had a CAP bird that a cylinder didn't get broken in correctly recently, so they had to take it back off again... Oil consumption would never come down.

It's almost through its ten hours on the re-replaced jug.

 

[murphey]

The first 8 hours were mostly 6500, a bit at 7500. Shop is open today (just called) and they're going to take a look at it. If I'm lucky, it's just the baffles. I need to check for scorched paint and such on the cylinder itself. If I'm not lucky, another week or two without an airplane while a new cylinder is installed.

For those of you not familiar with the Denver area, ground is 5500, so 6500 is about as low as I can go. (all of a sudden, the "Grease" soundtrack is going thru my head....)

rats.

Shop just swapped CHT probes. If the same cylinder is showing hot, then the problem is the cylinder. If the other cylinder is showing hot, then it's the probe. Probe is cheaper (probably free) and I can continue flying. If it's the cylinder, (probably free under warranty) then it's another week or so not flying while waiting for the replacement and installation.