In the afternoon, a nice big hole opened up over the airport and it started clearing, so I went for it. I climbed up to 13,000' MSL and putzed around for a while.
It was beautiful up there.
Here you can see Lake Matthews down through the hole.
Don't get the wrong idea...this wasn't a tiny little hole to poke up and down through. It was wide open.
While heading east I was getting 201 knots groundspeed. The wind was whippin'.
I only stayed up there a few minutes. The legal limit was 30 minutes without oxygen, which I don't have installed yet, so after a bit I started a slow descent. I flew the VFR practice ILS approach back into Chino for kicks, and everything seemed to work great.
Once back at the hangar I fabricated a simple headset hanger.
I bought a reconditioned LightSpeed R25XL headset, and I love it. I have an R20XL on order, which should be here soon. If anybody wants to buy one or both of my Dave Clark H10-13.4 headets, lemme know.
I worked on the left gear leg fairing tonight.
I got the fairing trimmed and the hinge installed.
