Flight to Hanna Alberta

 June 25 2022

We had a group fly to Hanna Alberta for a bag lunch in the terminal building.  Weather was another fantastic flying day with light winds out of the west.  This trip was a routing around the NW edge of Calgary then a easterly flight over Three Hills and then continuing onwards to Hanna.  Thank you to Mel, Alan, Jason, Gerald for attending.  We had great conversations that entertained the female and male pipeline patrol pilots that happened to stop to have their bag lunch at the terminal building as well.  They were thoroughly entertained by the shop talk about homebuilt airplanes, which of course dominated the lunch time conversations.

Flight for 2.4 hours

 May 23 2022

I managed to get the plane out for a flight in Southern Alberta.  This is the first flight since I relocated the CPI (Coil Pack Ignition) control panel into the instrument panel.  Everything worked like a charm once again and I was very happy with the 2.4 hour flight North and then East of the Calgary area. All temperatures and pressures stayed in the green for which I was very happy since doing my annual.  I maintained a lower RPM throughout this flight to slow down  bit an enjoy the beautiful scenery on a magnificent day for flying.  Flying north from CYBW I went directly over our house, but alas once again Adele did not look for me.  Flew north to Dixon Dam and did a few circles over the two resort locations, one of which one of my friends resides at.  No one probably saw me there either.  Next headed East and went over Three Hills where I know someone and then on to circle over a flying friends farm east of Three Hills.  From there I ventured SE over Drumheller airport and then staying west of the prison restricted airspace then to circle over another flying friends farm.  After this I headed back toward Springbank staying 25 miles north of Calgary while talking to Terminal frequency for proper clearance routing.  Then a turned South following the Lochend road procedure to CYBW.  Winds were gusting off and on from the W-NW and I landed a bit too fast with a good touch down but a long and swervy roll out.  All in all a great day for flying in temperatures from 10-14 degrees C.

Put the CPI Controller into the Panel

 January 12 2022

It was on my winter project list to install my Electronic Ignition Controller Module into the panel properly.  This has always been my intent as I was using the controller temp. attached to the lower edge of the passenger panel.  My test period went without a problem but I did not install the controller  properly as it was flying season and didn't want my plane unusable in the summer.  So I took a two day break from working on the Vision this week to do the proper install in the Q2 panel.  Weather finally warmed up after a three week extreme cold spell and I just got back out to the airport.   

My panel has a fiberglass back panel which supports individual aluminum sub panels on the forward side of the fiberglass panel.  The fiberglass panel offers good support, the only draw back is for every hole in a aluminum panel a similar hole must be cut out of the fiberglass panel as well.  This is first trial test fit onto aluminum panel.

For me the sub panel concept is ideal as the panel can be modified by disconnecting fewer instruments.

My fuse block is a swing away unit on a hinge and the SDS Electronic Ignition control head was temp hung just to the left of the fuse block and worked well for the summer testing.

I am very pleased with the final install.  Now when warmer weather comes it's time to go flying.