Back at T25 and unloaded ORV

What an adventure, Last week at Oshkosh 2022 was great, visited with lots of people and was involved in three forums at the Red Barn. Met some very nice people. Arrived home Monday Evening, had to work on work Tuesday and today unloaded ORV and placed in hanger. Still have lots to do but maybe I can get back to enjoying the high temperatures and humidity. Working on several videos so stay tuned.

Oshkosk AirVenture 2022

Loading Legal Eagle ORV for next great Adventure, Fun Fly Zone 2022. See you in Oshkosh. I will be at Leonard Milholland’s forum’s on Tuesday and Thursday (Legal Eagle and 1/2VW/ Briggs and Stratton Vangard 23), and on Friday my Forum on Shooting and Editing Video

The internet and phone service is starting to slow down already.

Legal Eagle ORV at Fun Fly Zone after the storm last evening
Friday from near air show center

First time with story blog so having some learning curves

Tuesday afternoon in Oshkosh relaxing under the wing of ORV. Nice day talking to lots of folks.

Flying ORV and the BSV23

Another flight thus morning while somewhat cool and density altitude not to high, field elevation 450 ft and DA is 1850 ft, yesterday aft saw DA as high as 3400 ft. All performed as expected but had a good wind out of southwest. It is always fun to fly with plane pointed 45 degrees from path of travel, saw as low as 14 mph on GPS and as high as 57. Made a decent landing even

Density Altitude and Legal Eagle performance

Density here at T25 today

Something low time pilots and lots of Ultralite flyers have little or no knowledge of is Density Altitude. Where we used to fly, Oakdale California, density altitude did not play much difference in day to day flying but here in East Texas at T25 it is a big difference. Our field elevation is 450 ft, this morning density altitude is already 2231 ft. This means to go flying in my Legal Eagle it is seeing takeoff at 2231 ft, not 450 ft. Longer takeoff run, slower climb, higher stall speed, slower cruise speed, less engine hp, less dense air for wings to lift with. During middle of hot humid days density altitude can approach 4,000 ft, on those days low hp eagles may not even leave the ground and the higher hp ones my only climb 150 fpm in place of 500 fpm. Remember if you start off with density altitude of 2231 and climb 1000 ft your density alt will be 3231, not 450 plus 1000 or 1,450 ft.

If you have flown on a cold winter day and noticed your machine flying like a rocket and then flown on a hot summer day and wondered why it is so sluggish, you are experiencing changes in Density Altitude. Learn everything you can about this Density Altitude thing because it affects every aspect of your flying.