I just wanted to uninstall the autopilot head controller and the pitch servo as I will replace them. The controller screen is slowly lossing some pixels and there is an upgrade available. No complicated work but a lof of work due to limited access to some components.

I then noted there was some fuel smell in the cabin so I had a look and found a leaking B-nut that had not been correctly tightened during the annual. I postponed the flight waiting fo the fumes to dissipate.

It's october again, time for an annual. Today Sabine helped me to wrap up everything. For two days I had been disassembling and reassembling the plane.(I think there are almost 300 screws to undo to gain access to the innards)

I found nothing very important ; a tiny fuel leak near the fuel filter, the pitot bolts needed to be retorqued, the nowe wheel brake out force modified and the landing light grounded again that was all.
The rivets, bolts, nuts and pins where all at the same position I had mounted them.
Then a first engine start with cowlings removed to check for leaks.

The once evrything is back in place a complete test run to wheck all the parameters.

Now I have to find a mean to drive out the little owl that is living part time in the hangar. I'm quite happy to have covers.

We had some time available to make a short trip to our native Alsace (east of France).

Take off from Nangis after lunch, and landing in Mulhouse-Habsheim after 1h20mn and one go-around.

My brother in law Pierre enjoys a short flight over the plain and the Bollenberg wineyard.

Then it's my other brother in law Patrick's turn. He has been taking flying lessons for a few months now.

The Sabine's sister Marie-Andrée makes a short flight. It's during this flight that I had the incident described in the preceding blog entry.

On the flight backe to Nangis we make a small detour via the Haut-Koenigsbourg castle (and it's scaffoldings). We the n track direct home by overflying the Vosges moutain range.

The purpose of the two days trip was to meet one of my collegues living near the Pérouge-Meximieux airfiled north east of Lyon. After some procrastination due to weather we set course for our firt stopn in the burgundy wine land.

After having dodged and flow through some rain we overfly Clos-Vougeot.

And this is our first stop we had to visit under an umbrella.

The next day the weather improved greatly, so we could fly to our destination.

Pierre got to test the RV before we visited Pérouges and had a great lunch.

We then set course to Nangis, overflying Pérouges.

The weather was fine till around Auxerre but deteriorated therafter the visibility reducinf and the ceilings lowering. Around Sens (10mn before arriving at home) we had to turn around. We got back to Auxerre, refueled ans waited for 1h30mn before being able to gat back to Nangis.