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Zenith CruZer & Sonex Logs
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Date: 6-25-2012
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Number of Hours: 0.20
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Manual Reference: n/a
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Brief Description: First Flight
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After 4 years and 1380 construction hours, my Sonex finally became airborne (officially) Monday night, 25 June 2012.
I had an inadvertant, Phil Ostericher moment last Thursday night, when I did a moderate speed taxi test to bring up the tail, and ended up being 10' in the air; got it back down, but tonight was the all-important *real* flight around the pattern a few times.
I was pleasantly surprised by the handling qualities; very solid in the air, not twitchy as some have said. Let's just say I'm RAVING about how pleasurable it was to fly. (relieved?)
Only issues were that it was 97 degrees at 8 PM when I took off, density altitude was 3300' for a 700' field elevation, and that the airspeed felt like it was reading wrong. Post-flight analysis seemed to indicate that all was well with that (or at least, it wasn't off *that* much).
I really really really wish I had mounted a camera to center on the EFIS display, since I can't remember all the data being presented. Fortunately, I did have data recording turned on, which helped us clear up the airspeed concern.
Basically, it landed Code One.
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tail up; flight imminent
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In flight
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Ready for Inspection
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