First Engine Run

 May 4 2022

Still making progress towards getting my final inspection completed this spring.  I picked my registration letters that I wanted and made up the data plate and mounted it into the VISION.   The Canadian Registration for my airplane is now completed with Transport Canada and I have the C of R in hand with registration C-GVVI.  On May 4th I made the first run up of the totally re-built Lycoming engine and it started up right away.  This I could not be more pleased about as I had replaced the original carburetor and installed a Australian Throttle Body "Rotec" unit.  I only ran the engine for about 3 minutes to make sure oil pressure, fuel pressure and instruments were all functioning.  A few days later I ran the engine again this time to see it get warmed up and then did a very short taxi test to test the brakes and the steering.  It went perfect and total time on the engine was about 15 minutes.  Then a few days later I tied down the tail to a fence post, chalked the wheels and did the Lycoming recommended run up to full power.  Five minutes at 1000 then 10 minutes at 1400 to get the engine oil to  warm up to 120-140.  Then to 1800 RPM and cycle the propeller three times then full power for a maximum of 10 seconds followed by a cool down for about 3 minutes and another full power test for 10 seconds and then cool down and full power a last time.  Such a pleasure to see the engine get maximum RPM of 2700 on each of the full power tests.