Hey, PM, Do Not expect to bring it home in a bag. If your Club President has any skill at buddy boxing, and is an experienced flyer, he's going to give that sucker a decent "preflight checkout". Our new models require quite a bit of looking over before their first flights. And everything that's not right can be fixed.

BTW, most really experienced flyers do not fly a brand new motor on a brand new airplane until the motor shows it is adequately adjusted and will run steadily at full throttle. So your check pilot really should also do some crew chief stuff before hand. Expect to spend some time before the first lift off doing sensible things that'll improve the possibility of success. I guess you really ought to be using everything you already learned as a Army Aviator that would apply.

Personally, I'm betting the thing is going to do fine.