Re: Preparing the pilot for first flight
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builderflyer wrote: was how the last part of your journey home was made in the dark of night. The hair still stands up on the back of my neck thinking about what an electrical failure (or engine failure for that matter) in a new to you experimental aircraft may have meant to the safe completion of the flight home. ...
It's all in the risk assessment and how comfortable one is with the assessed risk. I'm comfortable flying at night in good VFR with a defined horizon. Lots of folks just won't fly at night - period. Yes the risk is higher than day. But that is always so. In the risk assessment for that leg - it was "known ground". Principally over beaches or airports and the previous two legs had been fine. At that point the I didn't think the "risk" was much more than any other night flight in a piston single. I had Vg figured earlier if needed. I'm not claiming to be "right" and YMMV.
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DMMS - Yes! In my legacy Sonex / Aerovee - I use 60KIAS at a maximum bank of 45 degrees holding altitude. If you let the nose fall through - you can pull it a bit harder - but I have a placard on the panel to remind me. "MMS - 60KIAS @ 45 Degrees"