Weight and balance and more taxi testing

[C5Engineer 1170]

I had a fellow EAA guy with nice digital scales do my W&B today. She came out to 533 empty. I was hoping to be closer to 500. It was originally 484 with a 532 and no electrical system. I was kind of surprised that my measurement from the leading edge to the axle was only a 1/4". With me in it and full fuel my CG is sitting at 12.65. I figured it was going to be towards the forward end. What were guys measurements from you leading edge to the center of your axle?

After the weighing I flushed my tanks using a straight piece of pipe threaded into the fitting and a 4 foot hose attached to it. I drained it back through my Mr Funnel like you guys suggested. I got very little crap out of the tank I was pretty surprised. After that I replaced all the fuel line as the stuff on there was about 3 years old. After all that I stuck 3 gallons in each side and did some more taxi testing. Man I wanted to fly so bad. On my last pass I actually went out onto the runway and go her on the pipe for about 2 seconds. It got a little squirrely. I put in a little aileron because of a small gust and I lifted a tire. I didn't even know it till I heard it chirp. I put her away after that. As soon as I get my conditional done on the 12th it's game on!!

Turning onto the active

Love this picture!!

[skysailor 0]

Nice looking Avid!!  I am in the process of a recovering of my Avid C HH and your Avid is now my inspiration.  Nice and clean looking.

Cheers, Mike

[C5Engineer 1170]

It's going to get some striping down the side to match the cowl lines at some point but that's pretty low on my priority list right now. Thanks for the compliments. I learned alot about covering and painting during this process