giro5
Senior Member
- Joined
- Mar 19, 2006
- Messages
- 1,272
- Location
- Farmington, New Mexico
- Aircraft
- prev- citabria,AA1b, fun racer
- Total Flight Time
- 400 GA, 50 trike
firing it up with the nose up against the pickup tire, taxiing it around. Observations:
Gyro is really squirlly taxiing at anything above 10 mph.
Band brakes work for steering but are not as good as I would like. They do not grab but leverage is such that quite a lot of petal pressure is sometimes required.
Could not attempt a full power run. Power feel equal to my 503 DIDC that I had on my trike but at 25 mph control was marginal. Don't know how it would be if rocked back or the nose wheel off the ground. Nose wheel seem too short coupled to rear wheels. Thinking about lengthing out the position of the nose wheel and changing the caster angle. Also tiny nose wheel tire would roll over on the wheel and make slow sharp turns hard to do. It needed more air pressure but I just don't like that tiny wheel. All in all, have to make the gyro feel more stable taxiing before I would feel comfortable with the rotor on it.
I have 4 westtach EGT's none worked and the needle fell off one gauge. My one CHT and engine tach worked fine.
Probably going to redo most of the front of the gyro. Change the nose wheel, change the gauge setup, change the brake petals. May widen out the rear axel.
Airport field elevation at Aztec is almost 5800 ft. Engine started easily and ran smooth. My one Cht never got higher than 300 deg so I am probably still a little rich with fuel jetting.
Gyro is really squirlly taxiing at anything above 10 mph.
Band brakes work for steering but are not as good as I would like. They do not grab but leverage is such that quite a lot of petal pressure is sometimes required.
Could not attempt a full power run. Power feel equal to my 503 DIDC that I had on my trike but at 25 mph control was marginal. Don't know how it would be if rocked back or the nose wheel off the ground. Nose wheel seem too short coupled to rear wheels. Thinking about lengthing out the position of the nose wheel and changing the caster angle. Also tiny nose wheel tire would roll over on the wheel and make slow sharp turns hard to do. It needed more air pressure but I just don't like that tiny wheel. All in all, have to make the gyro feel more stable taxiing before I would feel comfortable with the rotor on it.
I have 4 westtach EGT's none worked and the needle fell off one gauge. My one CHT and engine tach worked fine.
Probably going to redo most of the front of the gyro. Change the nose wheel, change the gauge setup, change the brake petals. May widen out the rear axel.
Airport field elevation at Aztec is almost 5800 ft. Engine started easily and ran smooth. My one Cht never got higher than 300 deg so I am probably still a little rich with fuel jetting.
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