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Last week I flew into Marble to meet some other pilots for breakfast. One of the pilots caught a couple shots of my arrival.

Back in January I joined the Pilots and Paws organization that puts dogs needing transport together with pilots willing to donate time and fuel. I love dogs and it is a great opportunity to get out and fly to new places. Yesterday was my second trip transporting dogs. A family in Gunnison, CO...

Enjoying a local dirt strip with my neighbor in his Carbon Cub.

Last winter I completed all the Phase 1 flight testing cards before I installed VGs. The only flight tests I redid after installation were the full stall series and landing and takeoff distances which all definitely imrpoved. I have wondered how the VGs might impact other speeds such as Vx, Vy...

Today was the 1 year anniversary of my first flight in my Bearhawk. Took an hour flight locally to commemorate. Its been a great year having such a great performing airplane to fly and travel with. Keep building!

I've reached 100 hours on my hobbs meter, 106 hours logged in less than 10 months from first flight. This has been an amazingly trouble free airplane. I am still so impressed with the performance. I can't imagine wanting anything different.

Having a flying Bearhawk has made a quantum shift in travel for us. Both our daughters live on the west coast. One in LA and the other in Portland with her husband and our two grandsons. Over the last twenty years we have made many trips either by commercial airline or driving. The drive is 1130...

I applied for my repairman certificate in April. The week before Oshkosh I got an email from Lonnie with the Salt Lake FSDO saying he would be on vacation for two weeks but when he got back he would work on my application. The Tuesday after Oshkosh he contacted me again and said my application...

Looking for advise on a good airport in eastern Iowa, or western Wisconsin to overnight at on the way to Oshkosh. Requirements are tent camping allowed and a courtesy car. Could fly to Oshkosh in one day but that would be nearly 8 hours in the air, not counting fuel stops. I want to arrive...

I planned to fly this morning, wanting to do some more VG testing and more work on autopilot settings. Right after lift off I realized I had no airspeed indication on G3X or the G5. Having taken off on runway 25, I climbed to pattern altitude on the crosswind and did a 180 to put me on base for...

I was going to subscribe to the cheapest plan of Sirius XM aviation weather before a long x-country flight later this week. When I went to their website I saw an offer for a 3 month free trial of pilot pro weather and entertainment. Does not require a credit card. Loaded it into my SXM receiver...

My friend Ted with the SQ Cub invited me to fly to the Marble strip and walk the mile into town for breakfast. He had a passenger and I tried to talk my wife into going but to no avail. She has seen it from the ground and realizes what a tight valley it is in between an 11000' ridge and 12000'...

Sort of a long story about how we all hooked up, yesterday two cubs and 4 4-place bearhawks descended on Mineral Canyon strip in the Green River canyon west of Moab. We enjoyed hiking, comparing notes on our planes, the stunning scenery, comradery and desert camping. Picture of the group of...

As this is my first fuel injected aircraft, I have no experience cruising lean of peak. Today I took a 1 1/2 flight at 9000'. Full throttle MP was 22", I set rpm at 2200 and mixture 40 deg lean of peak which gave me a true airspeed of 126K, fuel burn of 10.2gph. The EGTs peaked at about 1400, so...

I pulled my cowling off at 31.5 hours to change from the break in oil to Phillips Victory. Found that one of the stainless tubes supporting the tailpipes had totally failed where it was flattened and bent. . Checked the other three connections and no sign of cracking yet. This one was connected...

A few flights ago I finally calibrated my AOA, which is part of the G3X system. I also bought the display unit that mounts on the glare shield. If you wish you can just have the AOA display on the PFD. I mounted the display centered on the glare shield and as far forward as the curvature of the...

I have been doing stop and goes at a neighboring airport. This airport is on top of a mesa with steep drop offs each end, feels sort of like landing on a long aircraft carrier. I like this airport because it is totally fenced, don't worry about deer like our airport. I think the pavement is...

I have quite a coat of oil and exhaust carbon on the belly of my Bearhawk. What are your favorite cleaners to remove this including homebrew concoctions?

Sometime after Bob changed the 4-place shock strut design to 1 1/8th tubing, I bought the new shock struts from Mark along with plastic streamlined fairings. I glued them onto the struts with 5 min epoxy. The glue has now failed on both of them, and strangely they turn sideways in flight after I...

Thought I would post a picture of this now that I have the vinyl numbers/letters installed. I really prefer this location for the trim wheel, one of the advantages of scratch building, you can make some small changes that work for you. The covered port is a dual usb plug in.