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A casual day out and decided to start up the noisemaker to get away.

Not a last minute start but an indication of what's involved.

The climb is then about 4 kts. Best operation is to fly at around 80 kts. As a past Solo turbo operator that takes some getting used to as with the 2 stroke you tend to climb at min sink speed not belting around! As I got the jet started this time I flew in to a bit of lift so just shut down again.

The control panel is on at the start of the video. It takes about 10 seconds to come on and do some self tests.

at 25 seconds - switch the control to 'erect'. When up the drag is less than having the wheel down!

at 30 seconds I switched the power source to battery 1, battery 2 is an old 10Ah pack and cant withstand the current required by the ignitors any more. Battery needs replacing.

at 36 seconds ( 11 seconds after selecting engine up ) the engine contro flips over to 'Switch to run' )

at 39 seconds I switch to run. The FADEC then takes control of spool up and start.

at about 57 seconds the ignitor starts firing as 3000 rpm is reached.

at 1:22 the engine is at idle 30000 rpm and I can throttle up. Roughly 60 seconds and 140' from erecting the engine.

before 1:30 has elapsed I have full power ( I only throttled up to 85% or so ).

a minute later I was in lift. Throttle down, Ignition off, wait a minute for it to cool and put it away.

On this one, about the 3rd of the day Student asked to video one .... so we did. Hopefully his video is better than mine. ) my camera was a fixed phone, pity I didn't have my 360 running )

We go into wave and had to do some syllabus stuff so spins seemed appropriate.

Just had a few tows behind the new 916 powered Dynamic tourer / tug at Aston Down. 2 up in the tug, 2 up in an ASK 21. Rapid acceleration, climb at around 5 knots easy to follow, very stable.

There is a retractable, 5 blade 180knot version coming soon! These microlights are the future of General Aviation.

Well worth participating. This year the multiple winner, Chris Gill is participating in a 1950's Slingsby Eagle type 42. Affectionately known as the flying sideboard. Chris usually wipes up flying an Arcus M, but a couple of years ago flew the LS4 and still wiped the floor against everything from club class ships to 18m ships like the ASG29.

Day 3 and Chris is in his second field, a tough day but the handicap will pay dividends.

Enterprise is a great format,placing value on extracting the most from a soaring day with a bit of fun thrown in!

https://www.compenterprise.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/share/186RG5cKUh/

15-20kt headwind so nice launch height onto Haleslands ridge off to the left.

16 or 17 years ago I took a snap of my daughter in the front seat of SGC's DG 505. Yesterday I flew with her again for the first time since then, a lifetime and 3 grandkids ago. We recreated a favorite photo.

And made some video!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OmMr4tXHy8o&t=23s

Comments about landing with a slight tailwind will be ignored, we regularly do so in benign conditions to speed up ops with reciprocal landings, especially when the field is not busy ....... only us flying!

Caught up with ZS ( JS1 Jet 18m ) out on task. About 350 k into yesterday's 500. I was backseating in the clubs Arcus M, watching how our star CFI does things. We overtook him and went left of track. He went right ..... and smoked us! Regaining the 30km or so that he had at the start. Brilliant day out in the UK. Some big climbs and some surprises .... big, dark bottomed cu's with nothing more than bubbles of 1 knot under them!

Chris Gill just landed after an epic, record setting flight from Denbigh. Using wave for the first part and then the late afternoon thermals to stretch the free distance Chris just extended the 3 turnpoint distance record for the UK from 1100 km to 1357 km!

06:15 winch launch and use the motor to contact the local wave, climb to fl194 and cross the water 120 km to the Lake District. then across the width of the UK. 4 times and back across the water to pass the home field and almost make it to Aston Down.

A truly epic flight!

I gave up trying to get an oil tank level sensor that 'just worked' with my installation.

So I developed my own.

ESP32-C6 + A02YYUW Ultrasonic Sensor and I added a BME280 breakout.

The assembly sits outdoors installed in the top of my oil tank so using the system to get the outside temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure was a good idea. I may update it to add a light sensor to read ambient light levels too.

I haven't bothered yet with powering it off solar and or batteries but that's an easy step and for the moment I have a wall wart feeding the sensor with 5v.

Integrated straight away with my Zigbee network.

Guess which house I was delivering to! Yup the one that 2 appliances had just finished putting out the fire in!

Not quite a Perlan tow but around 1/3 their height. We were asked to test the real world capabilities of a Eurofox 915is tug for the benefit of someone looking in to renewing their tug fleet operating off a hot/high airfield.

Climb rate was good right up to about 14500' and then tapered off. At 16000' climb rate dropped to 1kt so we knocked it off.

Eurofox 915is and DG1001 Neo, fixed gear and about 190 kg in the seats. At 16000' the temperature was around -5°C so 12° above Standard for a density alt of about 17500'.

Eurofox tugs are very capable!