It seems normal to me with the hot engine (190 OIT and 300 CHT). How does it behave when started first time of the day, mine is absolutely stable when cold?
These phenomena I see since I have the DA40 (11 years), and it was the same with the previous, Maule MX7 with IO540.

Same flight ... turning final LIMG Albenga Riviera Airport Italy

Passing the mount Matterhorn at FL140. Thats why the famous Swiss Toblerone chocolate has it’s unique shape

Steven: On my aircraft, with 40 gallon tanks, there is an access panel directly under the interconnect hoses: DSCF0135.JPG DSCF0134.JPG We inspect these at each Annual. Not sure if the 50 gallon tank versions have inspection panels under the interconnect between the outer and middle tanks. Steve St...

The landing site is approx. 8000ft, it was a hot summer day, max. ROC acc. AFM for the Rotax 912 powered DV20 100hp shows 200-300 ft/min. Acc.to local police they flew into wrong valley. It looks very much like a CFIT due to poor climb performance in rising terrain. Then, emergency landing just unde...

Emergency landing in the Austrian Alps. Thanks to the save Diamond design... both crew survived with minor brushes only. Landing spot approx. 8000ft

All true about the DA40 fun factor … hand it is flying fun, I was coming from gliders, Diamonds roots came from a (motor) glider, it kept the control sensitive well-balanced controls. On the shadow side is of course the long wingspan, in the bumpy air at lower altitude … and when bringing it into th...

777X-DA40 2.jpg 777X-DA40.jpg Watching todays long awaited first flight of B777X from Seattle - noticed that after the successful flight … the landing in KBFI was behind N489Y DA40 …. a landing watched by a huge crowd of aviation journalists That was a perfect timing ….. was this a member of our fo...

I am using a tow TowFLEXX since 11 years.... its just perfect and easy to use.
We do have several units on our airfield, including the larger remote controlled ones ( for the PC12 / TBM‘s).

5. Thomas Bienz, based Switzerland
D-ENMA
Interested in either/both

2003 DA40-180 40.337
KAP-140 A/P
2x Garmin 430
GTX-330
foreflight/Sentry ADS-B in

planned 2020:
Garmin GNX 375 (add GPS / GTX330 replacement)
AT-1 air avionics (collision warning)