I spent a few hours putting together a list of test points for the flight test program about two years ago, then left it alone. I need to get back at it over the next few months. I'm sure there is a bunch of stuff missing from my list, but you can see the current version further down.

I left the spins out of this list. I initially decided to use the same list of spin tests that would be required for a FAR 23 approval. There is a huge matrix of variables - left and right spins, starting from wings level, left turns and right turns, power at idle and max, ailerons neutral, left and right during the spin, elevator released before or after rudder during recovery, etc. With and without a fuel imbalance. 6 turn spins with flaps up, and one turn spins with flaps at 1/2 and fully extended. Put all the combinations of variables together and it works out to 72 spins at aft CG. But, you don't want to start at aft CG though - you should start at forward CG, then mid CG, and finally aft CG. So that means each test point gets done three times, for 216 total spins. Holy Crow. The FAR 23 spin test programs I had done in the past relied on company test pilots to do the bulk of the spins, and I just did a subset of the worst case points. 216 spins seems like major overkill - I don't really want to do that many, so I need to work on how to rationalize the list of spin tests.

The current version is a very large flight test program. I am not suggesting that all the test points are necessary. I enjoy flight testing, I am interested to learn the fine details of how my aircraft performs and handles, and I am interested to see how it compares against the FAR 23 criteria (design requirements for type certificated light aircraft). So I modeled large portions of my testing on the testing that would be conducted to show compliance to FAR 23. FAA Advisory Circular 23-8B Flight Test Guide for Certification of Part 23 Airplanes has much more detail on how to conduct many of the flight tests required for FAR 23 compliance.