[Criminal Number 18F]

"Round up the usual suspects" for a flying thread.

Was I too hard on the kid? Partial panel is a drag. Still, people do it all the time without becoming a 300-knot fireball, and then blaming equipment that was serving you loyally until you gave it the old terra-firma bounce test.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[snopercod]

No, you're right. A jury of people too dumb to get out of jury duty...

I'm going all electric on my Lancair (when I can afford it), with a backup battery. Vacuum pumps are simply too unreliable.

Ever read Bob Nuckoll's Aeroelectric Connection?

[JETDRVR]

No sir! you were far from being kruel and unusual upon the the naive aviator.
The ability to properly asess a Vac/AHRS/Mag fail is something that sad to say is not being taught correctly in todays fine institutions of flight instruction.
On a personal note , my wifes Grandfather just passed into eternity and we do miss him so. He was and is a Mans Man a Hunter Fisher Gardener and just in general a lover of life and of all human beings.

[FreedomFlynnie]

Is there a ping list for flying threads?