Perhaps I am getting too cautious in my old age.
The ATL has been grounded by EASA paperwork for over a year. But now all that is sorted and I am ready to aviate again. The engine has been checked over, taxi runs made, new oil and spark plugs, etc. Used regularly over the last ten years the Limbach has been so reliable that I have hardly given a thought to engine failure. But now after languishing in an unheated hangar with cold and damp weather it has become an unknown quantity.
On the first couple of flights since being grounded both engine and pilot are potentialy dangerous for each other.
Plan A is to wait for a stiff wind straight down the longest of our two runways (03/21) and climb at max rate to achieve 500 ft or more within the airfield boundary. A failure before 500 ft - land ahead. Above 500 ft turn to land on the crosswind runway(27/09)? Or not!
Any opinions on how I should (or should not) conduct these first post grounded flights would be welcome.
