flyn2high

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The first flight went amazingly well. The goal was to trim it out and monitor the temperature of the engine. The DLA-128 is very cool running in fact I am wondering if I have too much air flow over the cylinders. While flying it never got over 160 degrees F I was just a bit over half throttle and never opened it up even at takeoff. The heavy nose weight I had on the prop shaft is just about right. I am going to make a heavy insert for my Tru-Turn Hub that will be about 3/4 lbs total weight on the engine shaft. I also added 2 lbs of lead shot to the inside leading edge of the cowl.

Trimming was minor with two clicks of down and about 4 clicks of right aileron. With the gear up it was flying very nicely. I set my rates up pretty much as the plans call for and I left them that way for the flight. Once I get to wring it out I may decide to change it slightly.

The wind was mostly down the runway and the landing was very smooth. I noticed no trim change at half flaps with the gear down. On full flaps it was very slightly trying to balloon. I adjusted my transmitter so that I had a very slight down elevator on full flaps for the future.

The iGyro needs have the plane trimmed out before making gain adjustments. The first flight was with the gyro mode switch off.

I made my photographer buddy watch the temps and be there in case I needed huge trim corrections so there are not many photos. Here is the landing though.