It might sound daft after watching all your videos with you painting the camo patterns previously but being outside in the sun just amplifies the beauty of your paint scheme. Can’t wait to see you in the sky.
@@DTMinimax Dennis, when I crashed my Mini-Max, I was wearing a helmet. After I climbed out from under the plane, which was upside down, I noticed I no longer had my helmet on. After the plane burned up, I found the remains of the helmet in the cockpit area. I will never know whether I took the helmet off in all the chaos, or if I hit the ground so hard that it knocked my helmet off. In any case, without that helmet, I may very well have been knocked unconscious in a plane that caught fire within seconds of crashing. Rather safe than sorry (or worse)... You have no protection for your head at all in an open cockpit. Get yourself a helmet, please...
Hey there! fantastic job! You sir have a lot of self control, I would have a hard time staying on the ground. I enjoy watching your journey, thanks so much for taking the time and spending the effort to share. Be blessed!
Thanks so much! I know what you mean, just a little more throttle today and I would have been airborne for sure. I believe I need to do this a couple more times. I was feeling really confident though
Nice work, lovely looking aircraft. Taildraggers are a bit of a tap dancing affair until the tail comes up. I did a couple of hours or so before life got in the way. It takes a bit of getting your head around all the factors at play. Well done.
Thank you Michael. The magneto fires at a specific point and when Im pumping the prop backwards, I’m no where near it. I do treat the prop as live all the time. Fresh off of my Tailwheel endorsement, I agree with you, you really have to wrap your head around all the forces at play. Since my engine turns left from the cockpit, I believe you are correct that that is the prop-wash on my left
I just use a cable that plugs in between my headset jacks and plugs that runs to my phone where I use a voice recorder app for cockpit audio. If I hear it in the headset, it's been recorded. I got it from Sporty's I think. You just have to make a loud sharp sound with your camera and headset powered so you can sync it up in editing. It takes me less than a minute. Good luck. It was fun to see the plane from the tail view!
Great stuff Dennis to get to taxi on the runway. One bit of advice, when going down wind your elevator needs to be centred as if you get gusted you could nose over or get a very light tail and loose directional control.
Exciting stuff Dennis! That looked like a lot of fun. I wonder if that MD-80 Mad Dog Tanker was the one we had down here a couple summers back. I have a video of it landing at my Local RAAF Base. Cheers man, luv ya work!
I hope you fly with a solid reserve brother.. seems like the sort of thing where to compensate weight you need power which compromises strength on the wing loading. Cheers and happy flying.
Seems to be more slipstream/airflow on your left shoulder as well, from the movement of your shirt around the late 10 minute mark, propwash? Something that was always drilled into me early on was always treat an engine/prop as live. Probably more important/pertinent in magneto equipped engines. There's always a possibility of a cylinder firing, so keep off the prop unless you're intentionally pulling it through to clear it or hand start it.
Yes. One time I rotated a prop through one compression stroke, and it fired. Turned out the magneto switch had shorted so that both mags were "on". Luckily, I had my body out of the way, which I always do when touching a prop.
Hi Dennis! That was a great first taxi test. Congratulations! Why wasn't the airspeed alive at 20mph----just not sensitive enough? How did you solve the tach noise problem?
I forgot to talk about the tach. The UMA hall sensor in the vent port solved everything. Steady readings across the range. I wish I would have known about this earlier, I would have just started there.
@@DTMinimax Hmmm.....so the Hall sensor is a shielded "pick-up" sensor that detects the "signal" from the magneto, I'm guessing. Did you have a faulty Hall sensor or none at all?
@@wiseacredave The hall sensor is reading the magnets on the magneto shaft so it’s not involved with the p-lead at all. It connects to a 5v wire on the EMS so it has its own power. Very simple and clean
@@DTMinimax Interesting! So it's independently sensing the magnetic field generated by the rotating magneto's permanent magnets. That really is a clean way to do it. The hall sensor has it's own shielding so it makes me wonder why shielding the P-lead didn't work. I'll ask my two A&P brothers about it this weekend---they never mentioned that solution.
Hey Dennis. When do you have your Minimax on the calendar for your AW Inspection? Hopefully soon, as that will mean the "first flight" is just around the corner. Thanks, N6395T
Just waiting….they’ve changed the process, you have to have a DAR review your paperwork, and then upload it to a Airworthiness portal on the FAA site, then they choose if they are going to do it themselves or assign it to the DAR. So I’m in that process. The good news is I’m getting lots of ground time, which is great.
@@DTMinimax That's good news Dennis. Yes, I see that the "process" has changed. That's why Part 103 is so darn good! NO paperwork - no process - build it and go fly. :-) But making that 254lb empty weight limit is so difficult. You can get that extra 24 lbs with the chute. That has worked for many folks. :-) My EROS came in at 396, as I recall. Won't be long now. Good luck, Dennis.
To me the pilot is in a very dangerous seat position for landing off runway. If that plane every flips over, the pilot has no chance to survive. Cute though.
I was able to use my ForeFlight last time out. My airspeed came alive at 20mph and the good news is that it correlated with what I was showing in the app
First thing I a lack of is a "helmet". You're testing an unknown aircraft that could blow a tire, etc., G_D only knows. Come on you've spent your time and effort and a lot on money. Safety first till you know what's going to happen. You said yourself it touchy the faster you go, short coupled, a little wind and ground loop, etc. Helmets are cheap, fixing you won't be.
Doesn't have to be much of an incident to bang your head up...... I know a couple of blokes that actually wear helmets in normal everyday driving. With multi airbag vehicles, quite possibly not so much of an issue these days. Even kids these days have been forced to wear helmets on pushbikes, and wise in skateboards as well.
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It might sound daft after watching all your videos with you painting the camo patterns previously but being outside in the sun just amplifies the beauty of your paint scheme. Can’t wait to see you in the sky.
Thanks Jed! It certainly gets a lot of attention. There is a RAF AT-19 that just moved in a hangar close to me. I hope we get to fly together sometime
Congratulations!!! I second the helmet comment. Even for routine flights.
I’ve been thinking about the helmet
@@DTMinimax Dennis, when I crashed my Mini-Max, I was wearing a helmet. After I climbed out from under the plane, which was upside down, I noticed I no longer had my helmet on. After the plane burned up, I found the remains of the helmet in the cockpit area. I will never know whether I took the helmet off in all the chaos, or if I hit the ground so hard that it knocked my helmet off. In any case, without that helmet, I may very well have been knocked unconscious in a plane that caught fire within seconds of crashing. Rather safe than sorry (or worse)... You have no protection for your head at all in an open cockpit. Get yourself a helmet, please...
Exhilarating times! Love watching your journey!
Thank you Dan
this minimax is a real gem! I can't wait to see the first images when the bird leaves the ground! Congratulations for this extraordinary project!
Thanks so much Daniel!
Wow! Must've been exhilarating!
It’s so nice to be out on the runway finally
Hey there! fantastic job! You sir have a lot of self control, I would have a hard time staying on the ground. I enjoy watching your journey, thanks so much for taking the time and spending the effort to share. Be blessed!
Thanks so much!
I know what you mean, just a little more throttle today and I would have been airborne for sure. I believe I need to do this a couple more times. I was feeling really confident though
Nice work, lovely looking aircraft.
Taildraggers are a bit of a tap dancing affair until the tail comes up. I did a couple of hours or so before life got in the way. It takes a bit of getting your head around all the factors at play. Well done.
Thank you Michael. The magneto fires at a specific point and when Im pumping the prop backwards, I’m no where near it. I do treat the prop as live all the time.
Fresh off of my Tailwheel endorsement, I agree with you, you really have to wrap your head around all the forces at play. Since my engine turns left from the cockpit, I believe you are correct that that is the prop-wash on my left
I just use a cable that plugs in between my headset jacks and plugs that runs to my phone where I use a voice recorder app for cockpit audio. If I hear it in the headset, it's been recorded. I got it from Sporty's I think. You just have to make a loud sharp sound with your camera and headset powered so you can sync it up in editing. It takes me less than a minute. Good luck. It was fun to see the plane from the tail view!
I’m gonna be able to solve hearing the radio transmissions, I don’t have an intercom so when I talk I don’t hear myself unless I hit the PTT.
Great stuff Dennis to get to taxi on the runway. One bit of advice, when going down wind your elevator needs to be centred as if you get gusted you could nose over or get a very light tail and loose directional control.
Thank you!
Good, good luck, hobby brother!
Thank you!
Congrats!
Thank you Ivan!
Exciting stuff Dennis! That looked like a lot of fun. I wonder if that MD-80 Mad Dog Tanker was the one we had down here a couple summers back. I have a video of it landing at my Local RAAF Base. Cheers man, luv ya work!
There was a second one that was landing as I was taxing in
There are usually 3 more smaller tankers there as well. It was so much fun!!!
I hope you fly with a solid reserve brother.. seems like the sort of thing where to compensate weight you need power which compromises strength on the wing loading. Cheers and happy flying.
Not sure I follow…can you explain what you mean?
@DTMinimax lol before I put my foot in my mouth, is this a manufactured unit, or experimental/ "built"
@@TrueHelpTV It’s Experimental Amateur Built
Seems to be more slipstream/airflow on your left shoulder as well, from the movement of your shirt around the late 10 minute mark, propwash?
Something that was always drilled into me early on was always treat an engine/prop as live. Probably more important/pertinent in magneto equipped engines. There's always a possibility of a cylinder firing, so keep off the prop unless you're intentionally pulling it through to clear it or hand start it.
Yes. One time I rotated a prop through one compression stroke, and it fired. Turned out the magneto switch had shorted so that both mags were "on". Luckily, I had my body out of the way, which I always do when touching a prop.
Hi Dennis! That was a great first taxi test. Congratulations! Why wasn't the airspeed alive at 20mph----just not sensitive enough? How did you solve the tach noise problem?
I forgot to talk about the tach. The UMA hall sensor in the vent port solved everything. Steady readings across the range. I wish I would have known about this earlier, I would have just started there.
I’m not sure about the airspeed, I’ll have my iPad and ForeFlight running next time. I just didn’t want the distraction first time out.
@@DTMinimax Hmmm.....so the Hall sensor is a shielded "pick-up" sensor that detects the "signal" from the magneto, I'm guessing. Did you have a faulty Hall sensor or none at all?
@@wiseacredave The hall sensor is reading the magnets on the magneto shaft so it’s not involved with the p-lead at all. It connects to a 5v wire on the EMS so it has its own power.
Very simple and clean
@@DTMinimax Interesting! So it's independently sensing the magnetic field generated by the rotating magneto's permanent magnets. That really is a clean way to do it. The hall sensor has it's own shielding so it makes me wonder why shielding the P-lead didn't work. I'll ask my two A&P brothers about it this weekend---they never mentioned that solution.
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why the weight saving no canopy and hand prop if it's an experimental?
The 1/2 VW without starter is the max weight I can carry up front and the open cockpit is the design, didn’t want an enclosed cockpit on this one
Hey Dennis. When do you have your Minimax on the calendar for your AW Inspection? Hopefully soon, as that will mean the "first flight" is just around the corner. Thanks, N6395T
Just waiting….they’ve changed the process, you have to have a DAR review your paperwork, and then upload it to a Airworthiness portal on the FAA site, then they choose if they are going to do it themselves or assign it to the DAR.
So I’m in that process. The good news is I’m getting lots of ground time, which is great.
@@DTMinimax That's good news Dennis. Yes, I see that the "process" has changed. That's why Part 103 is so darn good! NO paperwork - no process - build it and go fly. :-)
But making that 254lb empty weight limit is so difficult. You can get that extra 24 lbs with the chute. That has worked for many folks. :-) My EROS came in at 396, as I recall. Won't be long now. Good luck, Dennis.
waiting
As soon as I get the TA
To me the pilot is in a very dangerous seat position for landing off runway. If that plane every flips over, the pilot has no chance to survive. Cute though.
The wind screen is designed for a roll over
A simple GPS in a phone will give you groundspeed.
I was able to use my ForeFlight last time out. My airspeed came alive at 20mph and the good news is that it correlated with what I was showing in the app
First thing I a lack of is a "helmet". You're testing an unknown aircraft that could blow a tire, etc., G_D only knows. Come on you've spent your time and effort and a lot on money. Safety first till you know what's going to happen. You said yourself it touchy the faster you go, short coupled, a little wind and ground loop, etc. Helmets are cheap, fixing you won't be.
Point taken
Point taken
Amen...
Doesn't have to be much of an incident to bang your head up...... I know a couple of blokes that actually wear helmets in normal everyday driving. With multi airbag vehicles, quite possibly not so much of an issue these days. Even kids these days have been forced to wear helmets on pushbikes, and wise in skateboards as well.
I never where a helmet either
If u have grass or dirt use it. They are a touchy sun of a gun on pavement
That’s my airport, you see what I have!
I’ll get used to it