short take off and landing with my new engine

[jacques]

short take without flaps at gw 1120 lbs
landing with full flaps, at gw 1120 lbs (- 5 minutes flight...)
25 kts crosswind,
32° celsius,
Rotax 912 ULS,
DUC ground adjustable prop, 22,5° pitch (cruise pitch), 5200 rpm static, 5500 max in cruise,

All this is part of my certification for French CAA

first one is just taxi, to see the plane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZdt20iElEw&feature=context-cha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A08VR0rAr8o&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS2rVppFEug&feature=plcp

[HighWing]

I like it. Looks nice and the performance looks good. The other thing, your airport looks like California in the summer. Dry grass with many trees.
Lowell

[ackselle]

Lookin' good! Keep us all posted.

Cheers,
Ackselle

[GWright6970]

Je l'aime beaucoup! S'il vous plaît envoyer plus que vous avancez!

Nous étions en Normandie en Juin, a beaucoup plu ... n'avait pas l'air de ce sec!

Grover:)

[jacques]

These videos was made from my home base "small" airfield : Bordeaux-Leognan, LFCS, 10 nm south of Bordeaux city.

Nice wine country, with the Atlantic ocean very close, 20 nm,

the bassin d'Arcachon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPsCM-bSPcg )

with the pyla sand dune (highest in Europe 360 ft : http://www.dune-pyla.com/en/ )

pyrennées mountain for mountain bike and ski (90 nm) and mountain landing.

Good food, good wine, sun in summer, rain in winter (good for the wine), in fact, a nice place to be!

My next work on my fox is a new prop that I found with only 10 H TTSN. An electric IFA woodcomp SR2000XA with a smart avionics constant speed controler. Best choice for take off, climb and also cruise. I will do that this winter when the rain come. The prop is now at the factory for an overhaul. Only 10 hours but made in 2001 and well stored in a dry place since that as it was just for a test. After that the prop was forgoten....

Some infos :

ZFW : 715 lbs
Max Toff 1200 (Kitfox 5 vixen short wings),
year of construction 1991 with a Rotax 912 80 hp, now with a 100 hp

FPM at 1200 lbs : 900 to 1200 at 50 kts
Cruise at 5000 rpm : 87 kts (4.1 us gallons)
Cruise at 5500 : 109 kts (5.1 us gallons)

of course all that depends on T°, altitude, etc...

Now with CRT (cathode ray tube) from MGL, before she was wit BRT (Big round things), 2 batteries, 1 main, 1 stby, Hackman carb mixture, electric carb heat and no cabin heater (will do that this winter with the prop...looking for ideas!)

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left seat with a big cushion for my kid!

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some details on what is on the panel (not real indacations, but I will add decals shortly)

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[SkySteve]

And don't forget, nice nose art!

[jacques]

And don't forget, nice nose art!


My son.....

[rwaltman]

Good looking plane, congratulations!

I see you have a split instrument panel. Now that is done, doing it that way, added work, saved work, makes maintenance simpler, the same?

Roberto.

PS: I just noticed the battery charging connector on the right. I'm going to copy that!

[jacques]

I used a split instrument panel just for maintenance.

Internals battery charging and external power connectors (to start the engine or for instruments, systems or radios maintenance) avoid to open the coolings and/or be close to the prop.

[Jfquebec]

Beau travail,Jacques,,

Jf

[jacques]

Beau travail,Jacques,,

Jf


Merci beaucoup!

[HansLab]

Beautiful pics, Jaques!!

I do hope my IV fies as beautiful as yours does......
Congrets with your first short take-off & -landings