[rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

[Drew Dalgleish]

Very nice Walter I thought you were grounded till after the paralympics.

At 06:17 PM 07/03/2010 -0800, you wrote:

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first test
flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having to
use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter

Drew



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[Walter Klatt]

I've been up a couple of times now. It's not too onerous. You have to fly a
flight plan, with a transponder code, and then call up a special frequency
in the air while they track you in the restricted area. The only nuisance is
the lack of flexibility with the timing. The flight plans have to be filed
at least an hour in advance, and they want you within 5 or 10 minutes of the
times you give them.

The weather has just been too nice not to fly.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Drew
Dalgleish
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 6:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Very nice Walter I thought you were grounded till after the paralympics.

At 06:17 PM 07/03/2010 -0800, you wrote:

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first

test

flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having

to

use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter

Drew



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[Drew Dalgleish]

That's good to hear I never read the NOTAM just the doom and gloom from
copa. We had perfect flying weather here today. I got up for an hour and a
half of just cruising around. Gotta put some more hours on my #@!! ECI
cylinders before I send them back. They got caught by the new expanded AD.
I had hoped that buying a new engine would leave me worry free for the next
20 years. My ignition has been back twice and now this cylinder fiasco. I
never had to spend a penny on my 0-290 and it is older than me.

At 07:05 PM 07/03/2010 -0800, you wrote:

I've been up a couple of times now. It's not too onerous. You have to fly a
flight plan, with a transponder code, and then call up a special frequency
in the air while they track you in the restricted area. The only nuisance is
the lack of flexibility with the timing. The flight plans have to be filed
at least an hour in advance, and they want you within 5 or 10 minutes of the
times you give them.

The weather has just been too nice not to fly.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
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Dalgleish
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 6:43 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Very nice Walter I thought you were grounded till after the paralympics.

At 06:17 PM 07/03/2010 -0800, you wrote:

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first

test

flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having

to

use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter

Drew



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[Jeff Micheal]

Nice video Walter and yes the weather was just perfect here yesterday; I
took a trip to Merritt for lunch.

Cheers,
Jeff


On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Walter Klatt <Walter.Klatt@shaw.ca> wrote:

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first
test
flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having
to
use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter





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[Wayne G. O'Shea]

Glad it all worked out the way it was supposed to Walter!

As you know I was a tad nervous working from photos and measurements to
compare the similarities and differences to my float install over yours (and
a different canoe model thrown in just for kicks!)..... to make it all work
for you.

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Klatt" <Walter.Klatt@shaw.ca>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:17 PM
Subject: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first
test
flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having
to
use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter





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[Walter Klatt]

I have been real happy with my new engine. I have ECI cylinders, too, but
they are the newer ones after the recall period, so mine are good. They are
the tapered fin EXP ones with the venturi intakes. I think that is part of
where I get the extra hp on mine.

My LSE Plasma III has been good too, and great fuel economy, as I have
mentioned here many times before. I have the digital display with it, and it
gives me the actual advance in degrees at any point in time, as well as the
MP. That along with my fuel monitor allows me to select a more economical
cruise speed if that is what I want.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Drew
Dalgleish
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 7:29 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: RE: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

That's good to hear I never read the NOTAM just the doom and gloom from
copa. We had perfect flying weather here today. I got up for an hour and a
half of just cruising around. Gotta put some more hours on my #@!! ECI
cylinders before I send them back. They got caught by the new expanded AD.
I had hoped that buying a new engine would leave me worry free for the next
20 years. My ignition has been back twice and now this cylinder fiasco. I
never had to spend a penny on my 0-290 and it is older than me.

At 07:05 PM 07/03/2010 -0800, you wrote:

I've been up a couple of times now. It's not too onerous. You have to fly a
flight plan, with a transponder code, and then call up a special frequency
in the air while they track you in the restricted area. The only nuisance

is

the lack of flexibility with the timing. The flight plans have to be filed
at least an hour in advance, and they want you within 5 or 10 minutes of

the

times you give them.

The weather has just been too nice not to fly.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Drew
Dalgleish
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 6:43 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Very nice Walter I thought you were grounded till after the paralympics.

At 06:17 PM 07/03/2010 -0800, you wrote:

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first

test

flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having

to

use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter

Drew



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[Walter Klatt]

Yes, I was quite impressed how accurate you were with the measurements,
given that you have the shorter float struts on yours, and we changed the
mounting slightly. It should actually be quite universal now with the way we
did it on mine.

And it should work fine on Drew's 14' Sportpal, too...

I had quite a few high time float guys come around my hangar when I was
installing it, and no one had ever seen anything like it. It's definitely an
ingenious idea.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Wayne
G. O'Shea
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 8:12 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Glad it all worked out the way it was supposed to Walter!

As you know I was a tad nervous working from photos and measurements to
compare the similarities and differences to my float install over yours (and

a different canoe model thrown in just for kicks!)..... to make it all work
for you.

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Klatt" <Walter.Klatt@shaw.ca>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:17 PM
Subject: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first
test
flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having
to
use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter





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[Eric Fogelin]

Congratulations and thanks for posting on YouTube.

I've got to get up and visit this year for sure.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Walter
Klatt
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 6:17 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first test
flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having to
use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter





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[Gary Gustafson]

Great pictures. Great day.
Out of curiosity, why is not the bow (pointy end) not
positioned forward?? Seems it might reduce drag a bit.

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Walter
Klatt
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:17 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first test
flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having to
use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter





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[Walter Klatt]

I have a lot of people ask that. But as you know on airplanes, the leading
edges are always blunter than the trailing edges. If the trailing edge is
blunt, you get turbulence which causes drag. With a canoe, you also don't
want turbulence back there near the stabs.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Gary
Gustafson
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 8:51 AM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: RE: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Great pictures. Great day.
Out of curiosity, why is not the bow (pointy end) not
positioned forward?? Seems it might reduce drag a bit.

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Walter
Klatt
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:17 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first test
flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having to
use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter





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[Gary Gustafson]

Makes sense. Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Walter
Klatt
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 12:05 PM
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I have a lot of people ask that. But as you know on airplanes, the leading
edges are always blunter than the trailing edges. If the trailing edge is
blunt, you get turbulence which causes drag. With a canoe, you also don't
want turbulence back there near the stabs.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Gary
Gustafson
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 8:51 AM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: RE: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Great pictures. Great day.
Out of curiosity, why is not the bow (pointy end) not
positioned forward?? Seems it might reduce drag a bit.

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Walter
Klatt
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:17 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: [rebel-builders] First test flight with my canoe

Finally got Wayne's canoe loader installed. Here is a video of my first test
flight with it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wklatt#p/a/u/0/BN2JNeOc14U



Works beautiful. Can't even tell it is there in flight, except for having to
use slight right rudder in cruise (even though it is mounted on the right
float). Banked it back and forth up to 30 degrees, and feels normal.
Take-offs and landings are completely normal. Haven't flown enough to see
how much I lost in cruise and climb, but don't think it is very much from
what I could tell on these first flights. I have the narrow stern back
instead of the wide stern like Wayne's.



Going to be a fun summer coming up.



Walter





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