Took my Bravata and the X5 to the field today, a day of forecasted 90F. Lucky I went early, at the field by 7:30AM when it was still cool and in the 70's. By the time I was done it was getting toasty. Got in 5 full eight minute flights on the Bravata, a real sweet gasser to fly. And though my largest plane, it can slow down and land light and with a short rollout due to the flaps, so it was perfect for our short runway now surrounded by tilled dirt after the sod harvest. Between the Bravata flights, I threw in 4 flights on the X5. I felt more comfortable with it today but sticked to simple horizontal 8's with a few flips and very little inverted. I did many small, flat right circles to get the confidence back in that maneuver. All went well today.
The Bravata prolly stayed under 100 feet high except for a few times I went up high to spin the plane down. I love the rolls on this gently giant, as they are slow and graceful. Interestingly inverted does not take that much down elevator. Perhaps most fun is just flying slow and low with or without flaps, and often carving banked turns about a wingspan off the dirt. Just tempting a dirt nap!
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