Drew, I am definitely interested, thanks!


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On breather routing, both the newer ES and Legacy manuals say "Secure the exit to the firewall such that any oil discharged the breather line drips onto the exhaust and is burned off." I see installations with the breather ported into the exhaust after an air oil separator, and installatio...

Yeah, of course I'm jealous of Rock's IVPT numbers, which are amazing. And I wish I had deice. If I could wind back the clock, I think I'd probably build a IVP and put TKS on it. More things to worry about, but we always want to go faster and fly in more conditions, don't we. But if you look at the ...

While I've also got the "slow" one (the ES -- but it's 180 kts :)), I updated my great circle map to see where I've been since I finished and started flying in March 2022. I was a bit startled: 60,000 miles, 51 airports, crisscrossing most of the US. In the slow one, LOL. Looks like I have...

It was a fantastic event. Learned a bunch, met more members of the Lancair community, and had a nice flight from Truckee CA, stopping over in Santa Fe, where I'd never been. Here's a pic of the Utah Canyons on the return to CA. Let's do it again.

Two and half years ago, I finished my ES, with superb assistance at the end from Steve Lorentzen on the hull, and from Matt Brannon and his guys Thomas and Manuel at Flight Metrics on the panel and prep for fist flight. Can’t say enough good things about all of you! In 2 1/2 years, I’ve flown my mag...

I love rightfully positive posts about Lancairs that I see from experienced pilots. The following is from the BeechTalk list (great list BTW) from a pilot who used to own a IVP and has graduated to Citations. He bought an Extra 300 and found it challenging to land. He said it made the IV seem tame, ...

On "shimmy": I noticed something a bit like shimmy (minor) in my ES on landing and occasionally on taxiing that disturbed me, and my commercial instructor observed that application of the right brake affected it. Sure enough, my right gear receptacle had just a bit of play, so we stuffed s...

BTW, where I said “Andair” above, I meant”Airwolf,” the larger and most expensive (and widely certified) Air-oil separator.

Happy and safe flying,
Dan

I have a 10:1 compression IO550N. My dipstick is about 1 quart low when I put in 7 quarts, meaning it reads 6 (actually a bit under) after putting 7 in the sump. It reads about 5 when I put 6 in, just over 4 when I put in 5, etc. This is following an oil change. I've measured this several times. Whi...