{"id":19623,"date":"2022-08-28T23:21:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=19623"},"modified":"2022-08-29T00:26:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T22:26:38","slug":"and-finally-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/and-finally-3\/","title":{"rendered":"And finally…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I got the flight in today, early this evening actually, in 24ZN, my X-air, that I’d had planned for weeks, before all of the problems arose with its fuel system and starter motor. Things went pretty well but the old girl still decided to play a trick on me to test my nerves half-way round, to the north of P\u00e9rigueux, in the form of a few seconds of rev drops even though the fuel pressure and the engine temperatures were fine at the time. The route I flew is shown in the image below.<\/p>\n

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Having tested the system pretty thoroughly by doing extended high rev engine runs and although as a result I didn’t anticipate that there would be any more problems with the fuel system, I thought that it would be prudent to do an extended climbing turn up to my initial route height of 1500 feet after taking off from Malbec and then to depart from the overhead. This would have given me the opportunity to land back should there have been any problems, but there weren’t.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I decided to take a few shortcuts by cutting the corners a bit, especially after the few seconds during which the engine ran slightly rough and the revs played tricks. However, it was for only a few seconds, the revs recovered and the flight was otherwise uneventful for the whole 1 hour 20 minutes that it took to complete.<\/p>\n

The next shot is of the airfield of P\u00e9riguex Bassillac where I don’t think there was any activity. The same could not be said for Figeac in the Lot and Egletons in the Corr\u00e8ze where there was plenty of the usual undisciplined radio chatter, much of it from radios with lots of buzzing and interference that was a real pain in the ears.<\/p>\n

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The next shot shows the city of P\u00e9riguex viewed from the north, not that very much detail can be seen in the photograph.<\/p>\n

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I think that the following shot is of Saint Astier, but I don’t know for sure. If it is, it’s where I went to buy one of my ‘tonnelles’.<\/p>\n

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I then turned left a couple of times to scoot in a south-easterly direction back to Malbec. The vis had been very poor up to that point as I was flying mainly into the sun and the X-air’s screen is rather old with quite a few abrasions and scratches, which don’t help of course. Even so, it was still quite hazy and the vis didn’t improve very much. The next shot is of the turn onto final at Malbec.<\/p>\n

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The following shot was taken half-way down the final approach.<\/p>\n

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This final image was taken passing the chateau just before the landing.<\/p>\n

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Taken all round, I was very happy with 24ZN’s overall performance but I have to say that this kind of ‘low and slow’ flying doesn’t appeal to me very much nowadays. So I think my X-air’s days are numbered. I achieved what I wanted to, which was to save it from a sorry fate in the UK and now I think that it’s time to give it a good clean and tidy up and move it on to a new owner who will be able to give it the love that I’m not able to.<\/p>\n

It’s still a very flyable aircraft and as I’ve mentioned many times previously on My Trike, it’s a mug’s game, for me anyway, having two aircraft. As recent experience has shown yet again, two aircraft just means two headaches and two sets of problems and with my house-build and all, I really don’t need any of that right now \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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