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Post subject: Re: You say you want an Evolution ... Posted: 31 Jul 2022, 01:19 |
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Joined: 11/24/14 Posts: 371 Post Likes: +241 Location: Kirkland, WA
Aircraft: Casually browsing
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Nice work Dave, that award certainly represents attention to detail. Congratulations!
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Post subject: Re: You say you want an Evolution ... Posted: 01 Aug 2022, 11:28 |
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Joined: 08/14/13 Posts: 6072 Post Likes: +4650
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Username Protected wrote: Congratulations. Beautiful bird and well deserved recognition for it.
If I’ve missed it, forgive me, but how do these stack up versus the Lancair ivpt’s? I’m guessing a bit faster, bigger(?), and more all weather? I’m assuming basically equally uninsurable? Just a tip, you can spend days reading about all these topics at lancairtalk.net
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Post subject: Re: You say you want an Evolution ... Posted: 02 Aug 2022, 00:06 |
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Joined: 11/22/12 Posts: 2595 Post Likes: +2352 Company: Retired Location: Lynnwood, WA (KPAE)
Aircraft: 1993 Bonanza A36TN
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Username Protected wrote: I thought they had split off the evolution but that’s wrong I see now. No, it's not wrong. All the pre-Evo models (235/320/360, IV, ES and Legacy), plus the "Lancair" name, were sold to a company in Uvalde TX. The original Lancair Co. in Redmond OR retained only the Evo and continued DBA Evolution Aircraft Company (EAC).
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Post subject: Re: You say you want an Evolution ... Posted: 02 Aug 2022, 00:45 |
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Joined: 11/22/12 Posts: 2595 Post Likes: +2352 Company: Retired Location: Lynnwood, WA (KPAE)
Aircraft: 1993 Bonanza A36TN
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Username Protected wrote: how do these stack up versus the Lancair ivpt’s?....I’m assuming basically equally uninsurable? No. I don't keep up with the IVPT insurance market but that is not correct for the Evolution. There is one company writing policies on the Evolution and their pricing reflects their monopoly, but insurance is available unless you are: 1) Too old for the insurer's liking, and/or 2) Unable/unwilling to satisfactorily get signed off for both initial and annual recurrent training by one of the insurance-company approved CFIs and/or 3) Attempting too big a step up. I personally know pilots who were insured with zero turbine time transitioning to the Evo from SR22s, Bonanzas, and a Cardinal RG, but the company declined a pilot with only 172 time.
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Post subject: Re: You say you want an Evolution ... Posted: 02 Aug 2022, 15:11 |
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Joined: 11/22/12 Posts: 2595 Post Likes: +2352 Company: Retired Location: Lynnwood, WA (KPAE)
Aircraft: 1993 Bonanza A36TN
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As a booth display, we knew potential customers might sit in it so we put on sheepskin seat covers, bought off the shelf then slightly tailored to fit the seats. Kinda makes the heated seats redundant, but oh well Attachment: IMG_20220723_073512945.jpg Attachment: IMG_20220723_073537782.jpg Each seat, front and rear, has a headset jack, USB, and O2 port just in case. They're mostly tucked out of sight, but we left the O2 ports more prominent to the back seats Attachment: IMG_20220723_073545838.jpg Packing for the trip home with 3 adults. All this, plus a bit more, fit in the baggage compartment. Attachment: IMG_20220731_135400680.jpg
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Post subject: Re: You say you want an Evolution ... Posted: 01 Feb 2023, 21:44 |
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Joined: 11/22/12 Posts: 2595 Post Likes: +2352 Company: Retired Location: Lynnwood, WA (KPAE)
Aircraft: 1993 Bonanza A36TN
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Been a while since my last update.
I'm pretty comfortable in the plane now VFR, and IFR on autopilot, but I'm cautious with hand flying IFR, I can still get behind the plane. Fortunately, the black knob moves backwards as well, it's a time machine.
I make the 2,000' turnoff at my home field about 80% of the time now, vs. the A36 where I made it all of the time. I've been using the same speed over the threshold as I did in the A36 but it's a bit too fast, it floats quite a ways. The Evo tends to land pretty flat, like a Cirrus, and I'm working to get the nose up higher and land more on the mains.
I discovered that when ATC asks for best rate of climb I can do 4,000 fpm if I hand fly, but the autopilot VS mode won't do more than 2,000 fpm up or down. I haven't yet found the configuration setting in the G3X for that limit. It's a known, minor issue with Evos that the ASI is accurate at low speeds, where it matters, but it reads a little low at cruise speeds. I wanted to know how low, so this week I flew a triangular course at 17,500'. The average groundspeed was 297 kts while the G3X said TAS was 290, so it reads about 7 kts low. That was at 775 ITT and 49 gph, I don't fly like that very often. At FL 280 the TAS is 3-5 kts slower at 31 gph.
Biggest issue right now is that the heater is ridiculously loud. It's not really a heater, just a valve that mixes in bleed air bypassing one of the two heat exchangers, so at about 160F, and when even partially open it makes a screech that sounds, to my paranoid brain, like a leaking door seal about to fail(!). I'm told that valve has always been noisy, but my plane is quieter than most so it's more noticeable. They're looking to source a different, quieter valve that will work as a replacement. In the meantime, the heated seats do the job well enough.
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Post subject: Re: You say you want an Evolution ... Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 09:37 |
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Joined: 06/28/22 Posts: 11 Post Likes: +14
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Any chance you could post more photos of your airplane? With such a meticulous build and all your extra attention to detail, it is a shame there aren't more photos for us to drool over!
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Post subject: Re: You say you want an Evolution ... Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 10:13 |
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Joined: 11/07/11 Posts: 723 Post Likes: +412 Location: KBED, KCRE
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My suggestion to your capped VS issue is to climb at FLC. It’s safer and won’t hold you at 2000fpm.
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Post subject: Re: You say you want an Evolution ... Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 10:16 |
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Joined: 01/30/09 Posts: 6088 Post Likes: +3381 Location: Oklahoma City, OK (KPWA)
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Username Protected wrote: It's a known, minor issue with Evos that the ASI is accurate at low speeds, where it matters, but it reads a little low at cruise speeds. I wanted to know how low, so this week I flew a triangular course at 17,500'. The average groundspeed was 297 kts while the G3X said TAS was 290, so it reads about 7 kts low. Technically incorrect to average ground speed, you need to solve for wind vector (x/y component) and tas. 3 unknowns needs 3 equations, thus 3 legs. There are online calculators you can use such as this one: http://www.csgnetwork.com/tasgpscalc.html
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Post subject: Re: You say you want an Evolution ... Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 14:08 |
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Joined: 11/22/12 Posts: 2595 Post Likes: +2352 Company: Retired Location: Lynnwood, WA (KPAE)
Aircraft: 1993 Bonanza A36TN
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Username Protected wrote: Technically incorrect to average ground speed Yup, my test-pilot buddies have since told me how I did everything wrong. They also point out that with a triangle, there may be different winds on each leg, so it's better to do a flower petal pattern, repeatedly crossing over the same point in different directions. Oh well, an excuse to do it again, and in the meantime I'm at least in the ballpark.
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