I hope to go pick this up tommorow.

[MrGeezer]

Runs great, but sorting out a radio noise issue.


HiTech

Could be poor grounding.  There are things in engines that can create electrical noisem (RFI), just like car and truck engines. 

[LilMak]

Runs great, but sorting out a radio noise issue.


HiTech

Did you know you can change the check 6 message?
Perhaps a new sound pack?

[Golfer]

Brought this home yesterday.  Coming over the numbers at half the normal speed is a different sensation and I very rarely almost crashed.  It was a good day!

I'll simply refer to myself as the caretaker of the airplane.  It's 20 years older than I am and I'm looking forward to actually getting comfortable in the airplane.













How's the Six HT?

[Hetzer7]

Beautiful Bonaza Golfer, nice panel 

[BuckShot]

Bring it back, its missing part of the tail!

Does the V tail feel different when flying?

Nice plane.

[Golfer]

It's been about 10 years since I'd flown a Bonanza of any flavor and never a V tail.  Yesterday was windy, gusty, cloudy, rainy and generally sucky so I didn't really get a good feel for how it's different from something else just to make some suggestions for what I'd like it to do which it seemed to without anything unusual.

Getting slowed down to 70 knots on final was a bit of a chore overcoming the "WE'RE GONNA FALL OUT OF THE SKY!!!!" feeling when 140+ is pretty normal.

I can say the first half hour or so I hated it.  I wasn't comfortable and I didn't like the feel of the airplane mostly because it was new and we were going flying in it.  Oh boy...

The rest of the day included a few approaches and some time going over the equipment to make sure it did what it was supposed to.  Or I should say seeing what it did and wondering if that was what it was supposed to. 

I'm only looking after it and flying it 11 months of the year while the rightful owner is out of the country.  While I will treat it like it's my own it's not mine to claim as owner.  It's a better deal this way and much less expensive than buying a well equipped Bonanza on my own.  This one is worth more than what I owe on my house! 

[hitech]

I was looking at the vtails, but I don't fit in them.

Last week end I took the RV up again, after about 1 month only in the PA-32 , man what a joy to be in a fun airplane again, felt like I was putting my gloves on , vs climbing into an SUV.

HiTech

[colmbo]

...a bit of a chore overcoming the "WE'RE GONNA FALL OUT OF THE SKY!!!!" feeling when 140+ is pretty normal...

LOL! I know the feeling.  I'd been out for 2 1/2 years flying the B-24 and B-17 (heavy controls, slow response) and had gone home and jumped into a 206 to fly a load of jumpers.  That first takeoff was ugly as I s-turned down the runway from over controlling on the rudder.  And then 55-60 on final was pretty scary the first couple of times.

[Golfer]

Yeah the elevator sensitivity is going to take some adjustments.  Not getting to altitude is going to take some adjustments and patience.  The "scale" of the altimeter on the Aspen display is only 200' for a reason and it takes for-ev-er to get to where you want to be.  The manual trim wheel is going to take some practice for smoothness.  The last manual trim wheel I used was in Citations and it was light, easy to use and had good geometry to make adjustments with configuration changes.   I shoved the nose down a little with a little too eager bite of trim yesterday on the first go.  It also took a looooong time to get from the top to the bottom of an ILS and a couple GPS approaches (This is my first WAAS airplane...it's nice!) which threw off the chrono-calibration of my brain a little.


All in all I like the airplane but after my first day I've decided it needs electric trim and a new autopilot.  

[Auger]

Nice ride Golfer.  I like how they shoehorned that EFD in there. 

[rvflyer]

What, you can't fly inverted?

HiTech

Why yes I can. :-)

[rvflyer]

It's funny that you mention a Thorp. There's a guy at my home airport building one and I was looking it over and he was giving me some performance numbers on it and you are quite right, it would be a good thing for me to do some research on them. As the guy told me, it's a fast airplane like the RV's, it's just on 60's technology.

  Thorp is not a comfortable airplane to fly, the RV-4 -6 -8 is a much better airplane. I am 6'3" and 230lb and fit in a RV-4 just fine. Of course my RV-6 feels alot more roomy because it is side by side seating. I am not predjudiced in any way I live 6 miles from Van's aircraft. 

[LilMak]

Thorp is not a comfortable airplane to fly, the RV-4 -6 -8 is a much better airplane. I am 6'3" and 230lb and fit in a RV-4 just fine. Of course my RV-6 feels alot more roomy because it is side by side seating. I am not predjudiced in any way I live 6 miles from Van's aircraft. 

I do detect a little RV bias there. As far as an RV being a better plane, I completely agree. But is to 2 to 3+ times as good as a Thorp? The price of an RV says it is but the performance sure doesn't. Of course I'm not 6'3" so roominess isn't as much of an issue for me.

[hitech]

Thorp is not a comfortable airplane to fly, the RV-4 -6 -8 is a much better airplane. I am 6'3" and 230lb and fit in a RV-4 just fine. Of course my RV-6 feels alot more roomy because it is side by side seating. I am not predjudiced in any way I live 6 miles from Van's aircraft. 

But have you seen the 14? It happened to be sitting in front of my hanger a few weeks ago otw to sun and fun.

HiTech

[pensley]

Thorp is not a comfortable airplane to fly, the RV-4 -6 -8 is a much better airplane. I am 6'3" and 230lb and fit in a RV-4 just fine. Of course my RV-6 feels alot more roomy because it is side by side seating. I am not predjudiced in any way I live 6 miles from Van's aircraft. 

Well it looks like it's going to be a Pitts after all. I'll be picking it up the end of June or beginning of July. It's gonna be a fun flight bringing it back to southern California from Texas, five or six stops and all.