A new Cozy owner needed some stick time for insurance purposes. He's flown a variety of aircraft and is an ATP. He used to own a T-18 which can be a handful to land, so the Cozy will be pretty easy for him. We flew to three different airports and he did pretty well. My neighbor is renting him temporary space for several months. Hopefully, he'll retrieve his Cozy next week.
During the flights, a few gremlins popped up:
The canopy latch circuit was intermittently showing the canopy open. Suspect the magnetic switch on the canopy is failing again.
On the last two landings, one of the main wheels had some shimmy, suspect the brake caliper was hanging up a bit.
The fuel levels displayed on the Dynon panel seem higher than what's in the site gauges. Suspect adding MMO to the fuel has changed the dielectric constant. May need to recalibrate the gauges. - Update - I think issue is that I had long beaded chain connected to the gas caps and it had slid under the probes. The anchors were hanging down to far and would slide through the lower baffle holes. I fished the chain and anchors out and shortened the chains and moved the anchors closer to the caps. The probes seem to read correctly now.
The light colored Zolatone in the cockpit is making it difficult to read the adjacent panel due to shine/reflectivity. Probably should get some "dash mat" and put in the strakes.
An email from the AVC (Airventure Cup Race) says I need to pick a new number, so replied with three choices that weren't already reserved.
My wife reminded me that the back windows still need tint.
I need to work on my "speed list" for some small fiddly stuff that should be addressed to gain some micro-knots.
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