Went back to the factory jetting to see if the engine would now fall within limits and happy to report that it does. Outside temp was 86 degrees, I took off and tucked under DAB class B airspace at 1000 feet. The cheap suction cup shades in the top of the canopy plus the vent system kept me cool enough and I was wearing jeans and a T shirt. After clearing the airspace I climbed to 4500 looking for some smooth air. I climbed at 80 to 90 KIAS and 1000 FPM, I slowed to 70KIAS and didn't really see much difference other than I couldn't see over the nose. I also didn't use full power, the fuel flow goes up to 10.5 GPH at full throttle I just set 9GPH and it was plenty of performance. I noticed that the bing carb doesn't quite keep up with density altitude and my EGT's got a little cooler as I climbed. The engine and aircraft performed flawless. Autopilot is good when smooth but in the bumps roll is a little twitchy. I can adjust that out. I overpowered the autopilot with no problem . The pitch servo will tell you when you need to trim and a touch of the trim turns out the warning. I have noticed that twice prior to take off my trim was trimmed full nose up. There is no tactile feed back on the trim switches and I think that during taxi my thumb must have been on the switch. Overall very happy with my progress, How fast is it and whats the fuel burn, The engine is powerful enough to cruise at over 130Knots but I derated it to stay in the light sport rules, and the fuel burn kinda takes it away from the mission. I don't have any of the fairings or wheel pants on yet and at minium cruse power I'm seeing 90 to 95 KTAS and 4GPH and at max cruise I see 120 to 125KTAS and 6.2 GPH.. I will have to take a little pitch out of the prop before I'm done but that will also lower the fuel flow. Today I flew for 1 hour and 8 minutes and I burned 5.5 gallons. My next step is to validate some performance numbers.
