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N241BP is officially out of the play pen!! When I checked the hobbs back in the hanger today it was exactly 40.0. 
(N240BP has another 1.5 hrs. to go)
Yesterday and today we discovered a couple of Gremlins in the Dynon system, and today we fixed one—I think, and the others have not shown themselves again, yet. N241 is having an intermittent issue with the PTT. When engaged, the #1 CHT went wacko and quit going wacko when it was disengaged. Did it a number of times in one short flight and then stopped doing it and is working normally so far. Another issue was the Mag compass was way out of whack—heading 180 and showing 90. On the compass rose a heading of 180 showed the mag compass at 305. Not possible to calibrate on the ground, so we did the suggested in the air calibration and it fixed it. Good thing. I didn’t want to have to send it back. I'm calling Dynon to find out how it could be so far off and how two 360 degree turns in opposite directions could possibly fix it. Hopefully it will stay that way and not wonder off in a heading of its own. We both have placed the ADAHRS on an aluminum plate attached to aluminum 1/2 in angles which are attached to the aluminum stringers and all this is centered in behind the rear bulkhead. There is no compass interference in this spot. Our ELT antenna is behind that and of course unless it is working, it is not a problem. Dennis could calibrate his but it was off more than it should be. The in air calibration fixed both of them.
Dennis had a message on his skyview that said there was a system event #5. Not an emergency, but get it checked out. Apparently it needs to go back to the factory, which means he will be grounded. ;-( He’s not gona like it, but now that I have 40 hrs flown, he can fly with me. ;-) On a trip north last week we were looking at 175 MPH ground speeds. Been a while since I’ve seen anything like that!! Still haven’t done a thing about insurance, so nothing to post about that. Donna P.S. Jared, thanks for the tip, those connectors are ordered.
Talked with Dynon about how the in air calibration worked and they said they were surprised it did work. Normally if it's off that far and you can't calibrate on the ground, you probably can't calibrate in the air. He said the turns allow it to seek out magnetic north amongst the interference of the steel tube aircraft, sorts it all out during the turns and waa laa, your calibrated!! I was also told today that a smart phone internal compass is pretty much calibrated the same way--hold it at arms length and do a figure 8 in the air. Amazing stuff!!!
(N240BP has another 1.5 hrs. to go)
Yesterday and today we discovered a couple of Gremlins in the Dynon system, and today we fixed one—I think, and the others have not shown themselves again, yet. N241 is having an intermittent issue with the PTT. When engaged, the #1 CHT went wacko and quit going wacko when it was disengaged. Did it a number of times in one short flight and then stopped doing it and is working normally so far. Another issue was the Mag compass was way out of whack—heading 180 and showing 90. On the compass rose a heading of 180 showed the mag compass at 305. Not possible to calibrate on the ground, so we did the suggested in the air calibration and it fixed it. Good thing. I didn’t want to have to send it back. I'm calling Dynon to find out how it could be so far off and how two 360 degree turns in opposite directions could possibly fix it. Hopefully it will stay that way and not wonder off in a heading of its own. We both have placed the ADAHRS on an aluminum plate attached to aluminum 1/2 in angles which are attached to the aluminum stringers and all this is centered in behind the rear bulkhead. There is no compass interference in this spot. Our ELT antenna is behind that and of course unless it is working, it is not a problem. Dennis could calibrate his but it was off more than it should be. The in air calibration fixed both of them.
Dennis had a message on his skyview that said there was a system event #5. Not an emergency, but get it checked out. Apparently it needs to go back to the factory, which means he will be grounded. ;-( He’s not gona like it, but now that I have 40 hrs flown, he can fly with me. ;-) On a trip north last week we were looking at 175 MPH ground speeds. Been a while since I’ve seen anything like that!! Still haven’t done a thing about insurance, so nothing to post about that. Donna P.S. Jared, thanks for the tip, those connectors are ordered.
Talked with Dynon about how the in air calibration worked and they said they were surprised it did work. Normally if it's off that far and you can't calibrate on the ground, you probably can't calibrate in the air. He said the turns allow it to seek out magnetic north amongst the interference of the steel tube aircraft, sorts it all out during the turns and waa laa, your calibrated!! I was also told today that a smart phone internal compass is pretty much calibrated the same way--hold it at arms length and do a figure 8 in the air. Amazing stuff!!!
Sounds like you still have a couple of gremlins, huh? Me too! My first build had digital cht / egt gauges. No analyzer, just cylinder selectable indicators. When I keyed the mic switch, both gauges would go crazy, numbers ascending and descending. I just figured it was a plastic plane, without much ground structure. I got used to it. If you've got just one cylinder that's whacky, you'll figure it out. 
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