November 10th

I got to the airport early and pre-flighted, then replaced the vacuum hose for the manifold pressure sensor.  Mark showed up while I was in the middle of this, and got to hold zip ties and tools.  Randy and his daughter arrived, as did Jamie and Nancy, and we all flew to Auburn, where we met Chris.  We parked the 4 gyros together (in one plane space) and headed over for breakfast.

After breakfast, Chris and I ran down the canyon before heading home.  Interestingly we were low enough that we didn't show up on the flight tracking facilities :o)

After getting back to Lincoln, we got everything packed up, and headed home.  On the way, I stopped at Lowe's and got a couple of pressure treated 2x4s.  At home, I took the bottom step of the steps for the hot tub apart and replaced the rotting wooden braces.  I got to use my jigsaw for the first time :o)

In the evening, we watched "Avengers: Endgame" (again).

November 9th

I got up and went to the airport to cook lunch for the EAA presentation - it was crazy busy, and I must have done something like 40 hamburgers.

After the presentation, I showed Chris' friend Rob the space at the back of our hangar - he's looking for space to do the final build and test flying of his RV-14, and would be looking for space at the end of the year for about four months.  I've forwarded his details to Todd, who runs our hangar.  There was a guy, Mark, hanging around to talk to me, and he came and looked at the gyroplane.  I was too tired to do anything (I didn't sleep well), so we agreed to meet up in the morning, and he could join us for the breakfast flight up to Auburn.

November 5th

We used the hot tub for the first time this autumn :o)

November 4th

It's been unseasonably warm, so I went out and got the hot tub filled, all chemically treated and started heating - it'll probably be ready to use tonight, but I'm sure we'll be in bed by then.

November 3rd

I'd agreed to meet Chris for breakfast, and I'd agreed to fly Scott up with us, so I was doing to the pre-flight when he arrived.  We had an uneventful flight up, it was warmer than I'd expected because of course it was an hour later than I'd been thinking, and Vic drove up and met us for breakfast.  On the way back to Lincoln, Scott and I flew over by his daughter's soccer game so he could take a picture from ~2000' above them, then we flew back to Lincoln.  After putting everything away, I went home and cleaned out the hot tub with a view to getting that started up before it gets too cold to stand around outside throwing cold water about.

November 2nd

I went out to the airport and cooked what seemed like an inordinate number of breakfasts for a cold November morning.  When that was all said and done, I sat in on the EAA board meeting, then went and looked at the plane.  It had been running rough the last time I flew, and I'd decided it was a vacuum leak - sure enough, we'd dislodged a hose while balancing the carbs the previous weekend, so it had worked its way loose on the flight to Auburn.  That was quickly fixed, and a short flight proved that had fixed the problem.  I met Chris for lunch (as I hadn't got to eat breakfast, just cook it), then headed home to update all the clocks.

November 1st

A new month, so here are the solar stats.

Power billed

Power generated

I went out and tinkered with the AC condenser, and got that working.  The fan blades seem a little out of balance, but I've got months to get around to fixing that :o)