to this for a long time. Me and Nick we're gonna take the Red Fox and head up north
and spend three or four days there. Waiting for my mechanic to show up and we're gonna
change the spark plugs, change oil, doing a final comb here make sure all systems are go
and probably change the fuel pump as well because it's pretty old and it needs to be changed.
So we'll do a quick check, quick test flight. Tomorrow morning we head to Idaho.
We're just good friends, baby good friends
When the daylight comes we're just good friends
Oh
Will we end just like this?
Will we find home or will we stay just like this?
Cause when the daylight comes we're just good friends, baby good friends
When the daylight comes we're just good friends but like lovers
On the weekend
Good morning. It's pretty early and we're ready to go here. The Kid Fox is ready. The idea today
is to go from here from Concord to Love Lock, fuel it up and from Love Lock to go to Caldwell.
Hopefully we can stop at Kid Fox and say hi to the guys at Kid Fox. I know everybody's at
Oshkosh this week and I'm not sure if anybody's going to be there but we can we can stop and try
and so hopefully day one will be fun. Right? Yeah. All right. See you.
Yeah Concord traffic, the Kid Fox is 19R and we'll take runway now and it'll be
right now in departure at Concord traffic. All right, we're full of fuel, sipping a little fuel there
and see how heavy we are. Okay locks, door locks, flaps set.
All right, may the good thoughts and intuitions be with us.
Air goes up. Oh man, there's no niche at all.
south of Truckee and anytime my RPM goes uh every time I go out above 5,000 RPM I
I feel a thump, a thump and it was increasingly getting worse seems like and I decided to turn
back and see what's going on. 785 contact NorCal approach 120.9. So every time that I go above
5,100, 5,200 RPM I was at 9,000 feet uh actually 8,500 and uh every 30 seconds it goes like
a little thump so I don't know if my uh floater on the carburetor is not right. 227
Bravo Delta contact Travis approach 128.4. 128.4 7 Bravo Delta. So it seems like uh
it seems like it's a lot of fuel going on and the engine can't process
so I uh text my uh my mechanic he hasn't got back to me we're heading back home and uh we'll hear
back from him and see what we can do. So for now we are not going anywhere we're just uh cruising
here at 4,500 RPM. I don't want to push more and we're pretty high here in case uh the engine
quits we have an airport right here so that's the way it goes. All right so here's an update
we made it down to Byron and um we got the uh Kid Fox that Jeremy's taking a look at now
and it's bright here and uh also Jeff has his Kid Fox and uh his uh CHTs and uh were pretty high
and they're also taking a look so at this point there is no Idaho uh trip today
and on top of that a lot of new fires are popped out over the mountains in Idaho in the back
countryside so at this point we don't even know if we're gonna go there or not so so much for day
one it's a long day hopefully we'll uh we'll see what's going on and we can do a quick test flight
so the the speculation is uh carb ice but we'll rule that out pretty quickly because uh it's
really really warm in here although carb ice can get in warm temperatures but
uh the humidity is pretty low there's it's very dry so I don't think that is the case
so we're gonna wait the floats and see uh if there's anything wrong with the carbs
and uh from that one we're gonna do a test flight
day
quick update here we uh what we did was we cleaned the uh right carb and now we're gonna
wait and clean the left one we're cleaning the air filters as well and uh now we're gonna go for
a test flight so looks like we have done everything we can as far as our carbs go
the winds are hauling big time plane is shaking look just sitting down
and we're gonna go for a test flight all right it's all good gonna put trim up
paper sand flaps and we're gonna go up like an elevator I think up maybe 8,000 9,000 feet
see how it goes all right got a full power here Byron traffic yellow kit box departing
runway 23 left downwind departure Byron we're climbing it my left turn pull power back a little
I'm gonna get it blown out all right my oil temperature is on the red so I'm gonna let it
cool down pull back a little bit now I'm gonna turn left let me stay close to the airport
all right so a little cooler temperature traffic the racket box is gonna be on the east side of
the airport climbing probably 10,000 feet we're gonna stay at the two miles east of the Byron
did change the fuel pump and the fuel pump has a return line which is just not connected right now
and it might be creating a different kind of a pressure I'm not a mechanic so I don't know
the reality is doesn't feel right doesn't feel comfortable it's not the type of pilot that I am
and especially when I have my kid with me flying over the mountains over the Sierras and going to
the Idaho back country just doesn't feel right so I gotta get this thing fixed so for now I think
Idaho is a bust too too bad because we had a great weekend schedule
everything was nice and reserved and we're looking really forward to it but you know safety first
and too bad I won't be able to share with you guys all of the Idaho beauty but there's always
next time so thanks for joining and I'll see you in the next time
