Bearhawk Companion N404BH

[gregc]

Airworthiness certificate on 8/21 and first flight on 9/15/2024. A bit of right wing heaviness and a G3X vibration issue to be fixed but it flies very nicely.

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[Utah-Jay]

Congrats!!! That is freaking awesome!!!

Keep the details coming.

Weight?

As you are in phase 1 give us flight performance details

[Mark Dickens]

Very nice! Congratulations!

[Nev]

Looks great - nice work !

[Dpearson]

Nice work. Congratulations!!

[alaskabearhawk]

Congratulations….well done!

[rodsmith]

Very nice looking plane, enjoy!

[Bearhawk Aircraft]

Congrats, mind if we share on social media?. Great to see another companion flying

[gregc]

Sure, no problem. Based on my serial numbers (2C-3C/4C) I think this is the second kit built by the factory.

[kestrel]

It may have been delivered on the same truck as the one that Dave Lenart built?

[RobinDeMarco]

Congratulations on your first flight! Looks terrific!

[Bcone1381]

Can you keep us updated on the numbers your getting and will discover in the test flight phase? I'm curious of stuff like performance, and empty weights.

[svyolo]

Awesome. Congrats.

[OhioLSA]

Congratulations, that's a good looking airplane!

[N942VT]

Good on you Greg! Yeah that came off the same truck as the proto.
Call if you need anything

[Bissetg]

Excellent news! Congratulations. Hopefully a nice shot for the calendar???

[Utah-Jay]

Greg

Looking at FlightAware it seems your ADSB is giving out incorrect information unless you have the fasted BH in history
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[gregc]

Interesting. Another item for the fix list ;-)

[gregc]

Following up on this just to add to the general knowledge base. You can see in the image from Utah-Jay that FlightAware is reporting MLAT data. This comes from their network of ground stations and it represents transponder data not ADSB data. When I ran a Public ADSB Performance Report, I couldn't find any data at all. This led me to poking around in my transponder settings (GTX-335) where I eventually found that the GPS data source was not properly configured and that 1090ES transmit was disabled. After fixing that, I can run a Performance Report and FlightAware shows ADSB instead of MLAT. I'm guessing that the algorithm for triangulating MLAT transponder data to estimate speed just doesn't work very well.