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grant4ever Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Racking up the hours and loving eve..." 07-07-03, 03:14z  Group, Flew my 13th flight and 13th hour in my S1S today. Absolutely loving it! Couple of questions for the Pitts drivers out there. I am swinging a metal sensenich 76 x 56 with 180 hp O-360 on my S1S that weighs 740 empty. It goes up like a rocket but it is so easy to overspeed the engine that it is not funny. Anything over an 80 mph climb takes a serious throttle reduction not to exceed 2700 rpm. It only takes 1/3 throttle at cruise, anything more than that and it overrevs. At 2700 rpm indicated in level flight it will not loop. Its just too slow. I have to dive for airspeed. Is that normal? I am thinking of reproping to a -58 or -60. Any thoughts? Gus PS - Landed on a grass strip for the first time today. Wow, talk about taming the tail. It really reduced the foot work. I was concerned about the lack of visual cues with no concrete edge but that proved not to be a problem. Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Racking up the hours and loving eve...    grant4ever       07-07-03              RE: Racking up the hours and loving...    TomParsons       07-07-03       1            RE: Racking up the hours and loving...    grant4ever       07-08-03       2         RE: Racking up the hours and loving...    TomParsons       07-08-03       3            RE: Racking up the hours and loving...    grant4ever       07-08-03       4

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