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In the December Beartracks, Greg Charest in his article about Phase 1 testing mentioned the web application flysto.net. Most EFIS have data logging capabilities and this application allows you to analyze all your flight and aircraft data. I had been using an app called flightdata.com and was...

Original 4-place Bearhawk. Plans #246 bought in 1999. Scratch built except for Avipro quick build wings. First flight 12-17-24. Modifications include four composite doors, Hoerner wing tips, trim wheel moved to the floor with a console covering the trim wheel and flap mechanisms. Engine is a...

Al, I built my Hoerner tips following Harry Riblett's directions, outlined in his book. Not saying that is the only or best way. Harry's key points were that from the leading inside edge, the planform is circular with a radius equal to the distance from the leading edge to the main spar. That...

May seem like a strange question, but what is standard for logging flights. Takeoff to touchdown? I've heard tailwheel pilots say it's appropriate to log from start up to shutdown. I looked in FAR part 61 and there is no definitive answer that I could find.

Flight 4-New Years Day: 1.4 hrs. Took off with 0 flaps, believe I prefer that if not doing short field work. Still gets in the air really short. I believe my rings are starting to seat. I could lean much further. My first flight, fuel flow was nearly 20 gph (not calibrated). Yesterday I got it...

Flights 2 and 3. About 1 hr each no test cards completed. Forgot to mention that for the first flights I am ballasted to be 1/4 to 1/3 back from the front CG limit. That is per the test card and Bob Barrows. Two 60# sand bags secured where the rear seats would be, gave me a CG of 13.5. I made a...

I could easily move my Bearhawk around until I fueled it. I considered making my own towbar, but I'm a little tired of building things at the moment. I wanted to go cheap but decided to go with the Bogi-Bar due to what I learned on this thread about the cheaper Cessna towbars coming off with a...

I started this thread asking opinions on Reiff vs Tanis pre-heat systems. Jon mentioned the twin hornet heater and along with an insulated engine cover seemed like a good option. What I have found is that the twin hornet, resting below the engine overnight only heats the oil and cylinders to...

Several builders have done a great job documenting their builds. What I have not seen is much detail about initial test flying, I plan to document my flights as I go through the task based testing as outlined in the new EAA gold colored flight test manual and test card book. My DAR gave me the...

My Bearhawk is everything I hoped for and more. It was a good first flight. The acceleration on takeoff with 300HP has to be experienced. I thought I was doing a reasonable angle of climb, looked at the VSI and it was reading 2000 ft/minute. It was a cold, very calm morning, perfect weather. I...

Just got home from visiting Virgil's facility in Fairview, OK. A long drive but worth it to get a checkout from Virgil in his Model 5 before first flight in my 4. My preparation for first flight started with a Flight review in a Citabria in Camas, WA to get legal, while visiting my daughter in...

The directions I have seen for running in the metallic brake pads is to accelerate to 40 to 45 miles an hour and brake to a stop, then repeat and check if the brakes hold at full power. Seems pretty risky in a taildragger, getting awful close to flying speed. Wondering how some of you have...

Aircraft Spruce announced free shipping to AOPA members Nov 21-22.

I believe I may have the unenviable record for longest time to complete a Bearhawk. But I persevered and got it done. My first build log entry was 6-1-1999. It struck me that that is a quarter century ago, somehow sounds worse than 25 years. Received my special airworthiness certificate today.

Before the fuselage was covered I had checked the wheel alignment and both sides needed to be adjusted (plans built fuselage and gear). I think I did it with the wings installed, didn't record the gear spread but think it was about 70". Since then I replaced my streamlined shock struts with the...

Final installation of glare shield, boot cowl, windshield and skylight (at least I sure hope it is final). I was going to rivet the boot cowl on, at the last minute decided to go with screws, drilled out the dimpled rivet holes for #6 cs screws. Will make any future removal much easier. I used a...

I wanted a cockpit indication of the cowl flap position. The Ray Allen position sensor can be hooked to the G3X to provide that information. Took some head scratching to figure out how to mount it. Realized that it needed to be mounted to a hinge to work as the cowl flap moves in and out.

pb, I thought I had posted pictures of the process, did a search and couldn't find it, Here's some photos, basically used pink foam and shaped it. Can't find a picture of the hole I cut in the cowling, it was big. Finish work took a lot of time.

Installed a taxi camera, fabricated a cover for my gascolator, made some small pieces to cover the splits for the portion of my glare shield that extends beyond the windshield, and fabricated a rudder tab. The $17 taxi camera has a better quality video than I was expecting, I was surprised it...

Unfortunately I had the opportunity to find out if my roll servo mounted in the wing was actually removable through the access openings. Fortunately it was, although with a lot of difficulty. I couldn't remember when I installed it with the wing open if I had actually checked to see that it was...