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First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

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First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

Postby Rynoth » Sun Jun 16, 2019 10:57 pm

Best Father's Day gift ever to myself today.

https://youtu.be/D8Z_OK6SFh8

Edit: Adding a link to my blog post de-briefing my first flight experience:

http://www.rynoth.com/wordpress/waiex/2 ... -analysis/
Last edited by Rynoth on Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:01 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

Postby rmtrudeau » Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:13 pm

AWESOME JOB RYAN!!!!!! Congrats on the first flight. Was a great video too.
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Re: First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

Postby N111YX » Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:23 pm

Welcome to the Club, Ryan! Yeah, just work that nose a little higher (near resting 3 point attitude) and she'll bounce way less. If the tailwheel contacts first, you'll never bounce:)
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Re: First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

Postby mike.smith » Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:48 pm

Congratulations! Feels good, doesn't it?!
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Re: First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

Postby jaflint » Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:32 am

Fantastic! Good work, Ryan!
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Re: First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

Postby Bryan Cotton » Mon Jun 17, 2019 7:35 am

Very awesome! Happy father's day!
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First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

Postby caveman370 » Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:14 am

Great first flight! Very good description on the flight also.


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Re: First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

Postby Rynoth » Mon Jun 17, 2019 9:10 am

Thanks everyone!

N111YX wrote:Welcome to the Club, Ryan! Yeah, just work that nose a little higher (near resting 3 point attitude) and she'll bounce way less. If the tailwheel contacts first, you'll never bounce:)


Yea in reviewing the footage, I was 65kts (75MPH) over the numbers and initially touched down at 50kts (58 MPH) so she definitely wanted to keep flying. Plenty of room to improve!
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Re: First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

Postby MichaelFarley56 » Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:26 am

Congratulations on an excellent first flight Ryan!
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Re: First Flight: Roth Waiex #197

Postby scotttro » Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:49 pm

Well done! Awesome video! I'm unspeakably jealous (and will be immediately preceding to the workshop)
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