Great to see this done and the challenges it presents. Its also partly subjective in some areas, but it also allows for a trend change of aircraft performance over the years, eg stall speed.
Thanks Giles, it was my first permit check flight and I took lots of notes from the BMAA check flight video before embarking on this one! The fun bit was as it was post a wing service, I inspected that, signed it off, finished rebuilding the wing before attaching it back to the trike, and then flying it with my wife! Yes, I double checked everything!
VNE test is bonkers, what's a fail, if the wing falls off? The most ridiculous test ever, I'm sure most just pop in the book figure. Great explainer video Mike.
Cheers Terry! As long as we get within 5mph of VNE (and the wings don't fall off!) it's a pass on that part - what we're looking for, and that's where the passenger is great (as well as bringing you as close to MAU as you can be - another requirement) to see if there's any flutter on the trailing edge as the speed increases - quite why that might happen or how it would be fixed I don't actually know!
Nice one Mike. It takes a fair bit of force to hold the bar back and keep the nose down to reach ‘vne’. Very satisfying to do your own check flight though!
Great to see this done and the challenges it presents. Its also partly subjective in some areas, but it also allows for a trend change of aircraft performance over the years, eg stall speed.
Thanks Giles, it was my first permit check flight and I took lots of notes from the BMAA check flight video before embarking on this one! The fun bit was as it was post a wing service, I inspected that, signed it off, finished rebuilding the wing before attaching it back to the trike, and then flying it with my wife! Yes, I double checked everything!
VNE test is bonkers, what's a fail, if the wing falls off? The most ridiculous test ever, I'm sure most just pop in the book figure. Great explainer video Mike.
Cheers Terry! As long as we get within 5mph of VNE (and the wings don't fall off!) it's a pass on that part - what we're looking for, and that's where the passenger is great (as well as bringing you as close to MAU as you can be - another requirement) to see if there's any flutter on the trailing edge as the speed increases - quite why that might happen or how it would be fixed I don't actually know!
Its been asked a few times over the years.
Nice one Mike. It takes a fair bit of force to hold the bar back and keep the nose down to reach ‘vne’. Very satisfying to do your own check flight though!
Thanks Peter, it was indeed very satisfying, and a whole new experience 😁
Very 👍
If mine makes it off the ground and down safely it's a pass 🤣
Cheers Patrick! I love how the check flight form asks if the landing behaviour is normal - blasted well better be 🤣