Today, the weather was fine so I went to the field with Guillaume, Sabine was working. We installed the cowlings, started the engines to warm the oil. I then préflighted the aircraft for a last time and under the eyes of fellow builders Remy, fréderec and Michele began taxying.
Take off was uneventfull, I climbed in a right turn over the field to 3000ft. There I assessed handling, the plane flies straight, rudder use will have to be looked at a bit more carefully. I checked speed indications against GPS ground speed. Then slowed down to 75kts with 1/3 flaps and to 65kts with full flaps. I did some turns at this speed and the cleaned up accelerated with full throttle to 140kts (without pants). I gently descended to a left hand downwind, established on long final with full flaps and speed at 70kts. I reduced to 65kts approaching the threshold. Landing was smooth but I should have held the nose up a bit longer. I then taxied back with an big RV-grin. This is a video of the take-off. Guillaume will do some editing with all the stuff he has available.
I was at the controls, but a lot more people near or far had a hand at today's event. Many thanks to
