Yesterday and today I went up for 2+ hours each day. Yesterday I took off from South Valley
Regional and did 3-touch-and-goes. I
then flew to the Tooele valley and did 2-more touch-and-goes at the Tooele
airport. From there I flew south over
the city and into the Cedar Valley. I
flew to the south side of the valley and there I calibrated the AOA (angle of
attack). To do so I needed to establish
a fast cruise and then fly some +5 deg /-5 deg maneuvers to give
the AOA a base line. I then performed 3-different
stalls. The first stall was clean, no
flaps. The second was a stall with 1
notch of flaps. The third stall was full
flaps. After completing each stall I
pushed the “stall” button on the SkyView.
I now have the AOA widget on the PFD next to the airspeed tape. It is really great to see that I have sufficient
lift to fly. Or in other words, I am not exceeding the angle of attack.
Today I flew down to
Delta. I used the autopilot. I entered a very small flight plan with
2-waypoints. The first was the Nephi
airport and the second was the Delta airport.
I turned on the autopilot and activated the flight plan (HSI & ALT). The airplane performed flawlessly. After reaching Delta I switched to altitude
and heading hold (TRK & ALT). I flew
down to Holden, over to Scipio and back up through Nephi and back to South
Valley Regional. What a fun time I had. I took a picture of Cedar Valley over
Fairfield Peak.
