UK Light Aircraft Association (LAA) required a minimum of 5 hrs of testing with at least 15 landings, whilst remaining within 25 miles of the designated test base. The required test plans were: See LAA website for details The Garmin G3x allows the collection of a mass of data recorded every second. This can be easily analysed in applications like CloudAhoy later, greatly helping accurate data collection and flight re-runs like this: The mandatory testing was completed over a 2-week period, 4 flights including an endurance flight of over 2 hrs to test all systems and maximum temperatures and pressures. A MAUW climb test for 5 minutes was done with an average climb rate of ~830 feet/min. All avionics worked as designed. The elevator trim tab was adjusted slightly to achieve sufficient nose-down trim at a max cruise speed 139 KIAS.
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