Chris Burgess
GYRO-CFI
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2004
- Messages
- 821
- Location
- Winter Garden FL 34787
- Aircraft
- Many makes and models, prefer open frame, Sold my SnoBird Tandem
- Total Flight Time
- 3400+
Got some kiting today at Frederick. Winds 23 gusting to 35 and variable in direction. I installed a rotor tach (Schwinn) just to gather some numbers to play with. As rotor got around 280 the nose would lift. It would get light with the tail still on the ground around 290. Try to takeoff around 300 but stabilized in the air around 330. Rpm would vary from 328 to 333 for most of the air time depending on how hard the gust hit me. Bob Trout took the photos. He pointed out to me that you can see my helmet reflected in the rotor in the side view and see me reflected in the front view. Had a bunch of fun "Going Green".
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