I love my Tailwind, but after having flown it nearly 50 hours since August, there are some changes I really want to make to it.
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The airspeed indicator isn't accurate. I've confirmed this with two GPS units while flying with no wind. The ASI is always reading fast so all these approaches and la...
It was perfect weather for a flight today. No wind. Temps in the 50's. I attached the GoPro to capture the autumn scenery and also record how fast I could make a flight from Yakima to Sunnyside to Prosser to Sunnyside and back to Yakima. Three airports and four landings. Unfortunately, the camera pi...
It's been raining all day. Pouring, in fact. I didn't fly so I spent a bit of time online looking for stuff to improve the Tailwind's nonexistent electrical system. One of the previous owners of this Tailwind removed the electrical system in an effort to reduce weight. Eventually, I want to install...
The boss let me leave work early today (HA!) so what better excuse is there to go flying? I hoped that the Washington fall colors were coming into bloom in the Cascades and surrounding towns. I like seeing the autumn-colored leaves while driving, so seeing them from above must be spectacular. I've a...
One of the nice things of owning an airplane is that on days like today you can decide spur-of-the-moment to fly to places such as, oh, Mount Rainier! And if that airplane is a Wittman Tailwind you can do it fast and cheap (relatively speaking). So that's where I flew to today, around Mount Rainier....
The weather was good today so I spent a half hour working on my wheel landings. Nothing too exciting, but I am getting the feel for it and I like how the videos turned out. I had the airspace all to myself so the tower let me do abbreviated patterns which means one landing about every three minutes...
