Post by jimmy on Apr 21, 2013 18:51:47 GMT -5
Well, the wife allowed me to skip church this morning, so I had a few hours free time to finally get my own run in on this course. Weather in the area was definitely not ideal with heavy overcast at 2500. For the 3 mountain legs, I was pretty much flying blind using the GPS terrain map to keep myself from flying into any of the granite clouds that I'm sure were interspersed with all of the other clouds I was flying in.
Bombed the very first landing... I came around the last bend in the river, thinking I had 1 more bend to go, and realized too late that I was THERE!! Pulled the throttle all the way back, and kept pressure on the yoke in an attempt to slow down enough to drop all of the flaps without breaking them off. Almost made it, too, but ended up hitting the runway at just a little too fast and registered a crash.
With the exception of the clouds, the rest of the legs went ok. Following the White Salmon River got a little hairy through the canyons, since I had a bit of a ground fog/haze obscuring things if I got more than 100 feet off the deck.
Got my next scare taking off from Swift Reservoir... as I was climbing toward Mt St Helens, my engine just decided to quit. Immediate restart procedures had no effect, so I managed to get turned around back into a glide configuration pointed back "down hill" toward the lake... it was almost like I ran out of gas, but my digital gauge still showed 13 gallons. I learned a valuable lesson: the Aviat Husky does not burn fuel from both tanks, and this model does not have dual fuel gauges, nor is there a tank selector switch (that I can find). I finally ended up doing a manual tank switch (possible cheat?) by going into my fuel/payload area, and swapping the right tank=0/left tank=13 to the opposite settings. This allowed me to get the engine started back up, turned around, and got the last leg completed. But definitely need to do some tweaking on this model to either put in a switch or adjust the fuel flow from both tanks simultaneously.
And now for a Duenna question... for some reason, I seem to be the only one not showing a KML/Google Maps link to view the route in more detail. Thoughts?
Bombed the very first landing... I came around the last bend in the river, thinking I had 1 more bend to go, and realized too late that I was THERE!! Pulled the throttle all the way back, and kept pressure on the yoke in an attempt to slow down enough to drop all of the flaps without breaking them off. Almost made it, too, but ended up hitting the runway at just a little too fast and registered a crash.
With the exception of the clouds, the rest of the legs went ok. Following the White Salmon River got a little hairy through the canyons, since I had a bit of a ground fog/haze obscuring things if I got more than 100 feet off the deck.
Got my next scare taking off from Swift Reservoir... as I was climbing toward Mt St Helens, my engine just decided to quit. Immediate restart procedures had no effect, so I managed to get turned around back into a glide configuration pointed back "down hill" toward the lake... it was almost like I ran out of gas, but my digital gauge still showed 13 gallons. I learned a valuable lesson: the Aviat Husky does not burn fuel from both tanks, and this model does not have dual fuel gauges, nor is there a tank selector switch (that I can find). I finally ended up doing a manual tank switch (possible cheat?) by going into my fuel/payload area, and swapping the right tank=0/left tank=13 to the opposite settings. This allowed me to get the engine started back up, turned around, and got the last leg completed. But definitely need to do some tweaking on this model to either put in a switch or adjust the fuel flow from both tanks simultaneously.
And now for a Duenna question... for some reason, I seem to be the only one not showing a KML/Google Maps link to view the route in more detail. Thoughts?
