[COUPERS-FLYIN] RE: cold wx starts

[David Douglas Winters]

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I went out to do a 200 mile x-country Sat morn.  Cold day.  Van battery (outside) was flat.  Auto in warm garage started, though.

 

Went to airfield.  Plane would not start.  Battery OK.  Air temp well below freezing.  No hangar.  Kept grinding on starter til battery started to fail.

 

No Joy, so, we scrubbed the trip.

 

Real disappointment.  Wife got that “So what did you expect?” look.

 

Anybody got suggestions on how to start a coupe in the cold?  (and save my reputation/marriage)

 

Dave Winters

2797H

 

-----Original Message-----
From: James B. Brennan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 10:44 PM
To: Ron Hynes
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; flyin@ercoupers.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] gas

 

Call it GREED, Call it THEFT. It sure as hell isn't concern for your neighbor is it ?  It is "life" today everywhere. 
 
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From:

Sydney Cohen
Date: 02/18/06 17:29:03
To: ken carnahan
Cc: flyin@ercoupers.com
Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] gas
 
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Here in Wausau, WI it is $3.80 a gallon, but 18 miles north, in Merrill,
WI it's 2.95.  Go figure.
 
Sid

Get over it! It's microeconomics, not greed or theft. Then, Wausau, being a relatively large city in the Wisconsin hinterlands, may have one of those fancy FBOs. (I went into Albany, NY on a student cross country years ago and was blown away by the Signature FBO -- talk about gold plated!) Merrill is a little burg and, like the other fellow said, perhaps he had somewhat older gas to sell at an older price, and at a smaller field. In Southern New England, the price ranges from hideous to insulting. I'd lay the "GREED" and "THEFT" terms on the oil companies who, immediately after Katrina slapped about a buck onto their price for gas that literally was already in the pipeline and/or still in refinery tanks before the storm (obviously scheduled for the old prices). [You DID hear of the profits the oily boys have been making??] That was a demonic sin. Our tiny part of their output is naturally going to reflect the "GREED" and "THEFT" of the oil companies in aggregate and shouldn't be pinned on individual retailers. While I'm not keen on $3- $4 100 Lotsa-Lead, I am grateful that the oily boys still bother to service us, as we are hardly more than a nuisance in their big picture (which I believe includes phasing out avgas anyway). I think it is not fair to lay it on the small FBOs.

Beach

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