Today was a great day the Flight Advisor called and asked if I wanted to go flying in his RV-7 to prepare me for the first flight. The plan is I will get some flights with him and since his plane is a tail wheel and the insurance company insists I get 1 hour in a nose wheel model with a CFI. My Flight Advisor is a Test Pilot but not a CFI but the insurance company wants a CFI sigh off, go figure. I have that planned hopefully for the next good weather day. The Jim had me take off descend into a local air field fly a pattern to a landing go around, climb out cruise to another airfield do the same decent pattern and landing, then we reversed everything back to the home field with some slow flight and stall work as well as some area work. The plane flies like a great; I can wait to fly mint. I wanted to drop my nose on base to final on the first pattern but fixed this by the time I did the last two. To get the landing picture he had me fly about 5 feet off the runway at 70ish knots, kind of tricky with a slight cross wind but it shows you how you can get the landing attitude set and just smoothly pull off the power and it just squeaks on. We use full flaps on downwind and fly the base to final that way with one power adjustment on final, which is how I want to fly my plane, full flaps or not flaps none of the some flaps on base the rest on final stuff.
Jim told me I should have no problems with the RV-8A, we plan one more flight out of my airfield and I will get the nose wheel time in the RV-6A there as well. We talked about the first flight items over lunch and he wants me to sit in the plane and run through all the emergency procedures at least 10 times touching all the controls, something I already started. We debriefed the flight as he changed the oil and filter on the plane.
