I have spent the past few days completing the flight tests required by Vans Aircraft and also to fulfill the Phase I requirements of the Airworthiness certificate. I added a rudder trim tab to help with rudder at cruise flight. It took a couple adjustments to get it to performed correctly.
The last 4 flight tests involved climbing to 10,000 ft at different configurations and time the climb between different altitudes. The autopilot and EFIS logged helped immensely in getting this data. The flight tests also included doing various stalls, slow speed, cruise speed calibration, turns, etc. I had to add 20 lbs of water in a jug as a ballast to get the plane to 1050 lbs per instructions.
Overall things performed as per POH. The RV12 is a fun plane to fly and can't wait to take some of my family up on flights.
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| Trim Tab clecoed |
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| Trim tab riveted |
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| Climbing to 10,000 ft |
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| Selfie. |
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| View over clouds |
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| View of valley |
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| Flight over my sons soccer game. |
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