Idaho Backcountry

[PapuaPilot]

I finished the 40 hours of phase 1 flight testing yesterday.

After that I went home to make the required logbook entry. Then I headed back to the airport with my son, who was home from college for the weekend. He wanted to go to Garden Valley after seeing the pictures from last weekend. We headed there, got in the valley and saw the airstrip. At about 3 miles out we hit some light rain and turbulence. We decided we didn't need to land there and turned to out of the valley.

Last week I also did a flight at gross weight to determine the service ceiling. The plane got up to 17,200 feet in about 50 minutes. The service ceiling is 17,000'. That is very impressive and my personal record for altitude as PIC. The picture shows me climbing through 14,750'.

[DesertFox4]

Congrats Phil on both finishing Phase 1 and reaching a new personal height. Enjoy the fruits of your labor in every flight.