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Williston traffic, Cessna 512R
is taxiing from the hangar to runway 23.
We're closed traffic at Williston. Hey everyone, Jason Schappert here of MzeroA.com
along side world famous A&P mechanic Russ
you've seen Russ in plenty of videos before, we've been working very, very hard
on 512 Romeo,
you saw when I brought it home
the history of 12 Romeo is the first real MzeroA airplane
sold the airplane, ended up buying it back, it has been flown
is it safe to say once in five years. Once in five years, this is its
second flight after it's had an extensive
annual done to it. So Russ, if you want, I'll take the flight controls.
For a second and taxi, so you can talk to everybody. I have the flight controls. You have the flight controls. I've got them.
Okay, tell everybody, I mean it was just a regular annual plus an engine.
Run everybody through what you kind of did to it. So, our engine
was TBO'ed and so we replaced the engine,
took us a while to find an 0200. Yeah, it was hard to come by.
A lot of light sport guys they're wanting those, so took us a while to find one.
with low time on it so we didn't have to go through it, so we got that we had to put that
on, the aircraft actually had sat outside without the cowling.
So I cleaned up, the
firewall. Had a lot of corrosion, right?
Yeah, just sitting out like that. And then both of the solenoids were
bad, so we had to replace that. Just because it's Florida heat
sun, it sits out, everything just breaks, and soon as you touch it
it's just gone. So, it was more of a tedious
thing of, just finding everything that was wrong.
You go to run it up, and this is wrong, that's wrong,
Champion did us a favor they actually,
sent Mags to us, and the wires turned out to be
bad, it was just like I said, one thing after another.
I haven't done an annual on this aircraft, so I took the aircraft all the way down.
Took interior out, did everything, make sure that
the control cables were good, checked to see if there's any corrosion
there was a lot of mud dobbers nests in here
wasps, fuse holders
a lot of those broke, had to replace those, it
it was just one thing after another. You take something apart and you find something else
it was a very very long process, finding the engine took a long time, getting everything up
to this moment here, and it still has a long way to go. We want new
avionics, new glass, new paint, but it all starts with this.
and now, keeping the airplane flying. Airplanes aren't meant to sit. Not at all.
they can not sit, especially, really anywhere, but
especially in Florida on a ramp, that is not a good spot, with the cowling off
of it. Yeah, with the cowling off of it, I mean sometimes we get the rain and that doesn't help.
The heat, the sun just kills it as well.
Well you all know the story if you've been following MzeroA for a long time, I mean
When we repurchased the airplane, I flew it from Dunellon to Williston
so Russ could do all the work on it, but before that, you've seen that video
the last time I flew that airplane I had an engine failure on takeoff in it, so I was a little nervous
I'm still a little nervous today even flying, I mean just any time you fly an airplane
it's had that much done to it. After we did all the avionics work in Mike
Zulu it was kind of the same thing, after the paint of Mike Zulu like man
they took off the ailerons, the flaps, everything, how do I know it's rigged right, how do I know all this,
it can be a nerve wracking little experience here and just, I haven't flown this airplane in so
long it, my sight picture is different in a 150.
I'll do the run up Russ, if you want to tell me what to do.
on the checklist, if you want to go through it
that way, this is the one I made up that I like to use here
Taking the POH and adding some to it. Been so long since I've seen though.
as well, engine start, run up, there we go.
Alright brakes? I got 'em.
doors, I'll leave mine open until we are ready to go. Mixture rich? Mixture is rich.
Flight controls. Alright this is going to be important here. So, alright right side up.
Left side down. Left side up, right side down.
Full back, full forward.
Making the whole box, and wag our tail, move that rudder out there at the back.
Everything looks good, no knees in the way, everything looks good. Alright,
Throttle, 17. Throttle up to 17.
I had to look for a second where the tachometer was, again, I'm used to
a totally different airplane. Right in front of me, right?
Alright, Mags check, I'll get them for you.
I'll go right. Good drop.
Both. RIght back to where it was. Left. Good drop.
Great drop. Both.
alright, carb heat. Carb heat check.
Nice big drop, that's always worked well. Vacuum check. Alright Vacuum check
and if you're cool with it, I know it's not on the checklist, but I want to do full power for just a bit if that's okay. Okay
that's fine. I'm holding the brakes if you don't mind holding them with me.
It's always a good thing
to do full power just to check and make sure everything is good, just because
as much as we went through as far as the engine and everything else it's always good to do.
Is this a different a throttle or is this the same one it always had? Yup.
Seems different, I remember you flew the 172. I know I'm flying the 172
the Technam, everything else so much.
I'm not smelling anything weird.
Alright, you happy with everything? I'm happy.
Alright, bringing back to 17,
do carb heat, and I think idle check is next. Forgot what a long throw that throttle has.
I mean that 1700 that is way out there, that's why I was asking if it's the original
throttle, so carb heat, and next idle check. Ammeter check.
checked our instruments and everything, throttle at 1000.
back up to a thousand.
Flight instruments, zero
let's get this right there for me. Altimeter is set.
if you can put me on an East heading, please?
Great. Alright.
Vertical speed, everything else looks fantastic, my friend.
What else is there? Trim. Trim is set for take off.
And departure brief. Departure brief, just so we are on the same page I'll be the flying
pilot, and I'll serve as the talking pilot. The purpose of
taking the mechanic always go with us. Russ is very accomplished pilot,
in his own right, but Russ's job is going to be to listen to smell to watch
to see any little hiccup, I want him to focus solely on that. I can fly,
I can talk, I want his sole focus to be is everything sound,
and performing appropriately, and Russ if at any point you say discontinue,
we've got more than enough options, I can discontinue this thing in a heart beat. Alright,
you know and something else, too, a lot of times we don't think about it, but we do have
the BOSE headset so we have the ANR, so I keep mine off. Because I'm listening to the
engine. Because you know it's kind of hard to hear that with the ANR
What a good, interesting problem to have. I remember when we first got the BOSE
headset, I was like wow, I was so used to hearing the engine and now it sounded different.
He's going to go with his ANR off because of that, what a good point.
You're good on checklists, everything else. Lights, transponder,
and mixture is rich, other than that we're all set.
Sitting there, probably grabbing IFR, we're going to roll.
Seat belt's good, Russ? Seat belt's good.
Weird having a push to talk on the yoke, I'm so used to (clicking).
And Williston traffic, Cessna 512 Romeo,
departing runway two three closed traffic, Williston.
Alirght
If you're not nervous during
a maintenance flight, you should wake up or maybe get
out of aviation, right? That's right.
Always cautious.
Runway is clear, double checked final is clear, I'm just going to
I know this sounds weird to the MzeroA listeners and viewers, but I'm going to be quiet once so Russ can
do his job.
Confirm two three outside, two three on the compass, and
heading indicator, alright Russ, here we go.
Airspeed's alive?
Or is the airspeed alive? Uh
yeah, we probably yeah we have to abort.
Discontinue. Discontinue. Discontinuing, just going to let it roll out. No airspeed.
That's okay.
One two Romeo is discontinuing takeoff, back to the hangar, Williston.
Not a problem. Well, I mean that's the whole point
of a maintenance flight. I get it man, I totally get it, you know it's so funny that
we get, we kind of had this conversation before in the hangar, where you get so complacent, airspeed
alive, and you have to look, and I was looking going it's not alive, but how many times do you call
airspeed alive, and it's just always alive, and you get complacent, you look and you go we don't have any airspeed.
No, we had some mud dobbers that
got in the pitot tube, and
this is why we practice. Let some Florida air-conditioning in, we're going to taxi it on
back to the hangar. MzeroA crew, a pretty exciting video.
Got right to, tune in next week, leave them on a cliff hanger
there, we will get 12 Romeo flying next week
we'll come back to you with its great debut video.
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