The last time I went flying with my flight instructor, my airplane had a bit of a tendency to roll to the left. This was very distracting and made it difficult to keep everything in check. On Saturday I had a mechanic look at the airplane and found that the right flap was sitting a little bit low. He raised it up a tiny amount and told me to fly it and see how it performs. It was astounding how much that little change helped. I can fly pretty much hands off now. Sunday morning I went flying with my flight instructor again and I felt like I had so much more control of the airplane. We worked on making a pitch, power, and performance chart. This is used to learn the airplane better so you can make known changes to the aircraft’s configuration and get predictable results. I am really starting to feel like I have a lot more precision in the air. The only problem that I saw was that the compass or the DG was having a problem keeping direction. I blamed the DG and planned to look at the compass to confirm.
I took Serenity (my airplane) to the compass rose at the air museum and found that it was wildly wrong. I spent an hour trying to correct the deviation. I was able to get it close to correct at the cardinal points. More flight testing will be required to fine tune it.
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