Happy Christmas Mark -and all your forbearing family !
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On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Mark Langford via KRnet <
krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote:

> Claire and almost had a Christmas flight too, but were denied!  Given that
> wife and son were sick as dogs, wife with bronchitis and son laid up in bed
> with the flu, we gave up on driving to visit my father this year, so Claire
> and I thought we'd just fly down to my father's farm and bring him lunch.
>  Well....we were late getting out of the house, and I had to play 100LL /
> autofuel / Marvel Mystery oil games, rearrange flight bags, tools, find a
> place for a chocolate pie, etc, then I noticed one tire was awfully low
> (less than 20 psi, and therefore subject to "snakebite" on hard landings)
> and had to fix that, etc.  But I persevered, despite high crosswind
> predictions at both ends, and the fact that I'd likely have to get fuel for
> the trip back due to headwinds, and the low temps and blustery winds would
> have been bad if forced down somewhere.  So we finally packed into the
> stock width KR2 and taxied out to the runway.  After I swung the plane
> around to the preflight checklist, I noticed the wonderful MGL iEFIS was
> completely blank!  Swapping power to backup and main power buses had no
> effect. OK.....I'm done, that's it....the last domino to fall before I
> scuttle the flight.  So I taxi back to the hangar, shut it all down, flip
> on the iEFIS with backup power (just for kicks), and it comes right up.
> Great, no way and I still flying now!
>
> This was reminiscent of a previous trip to the farm, where it worked fine
> all the way to my father's farm, but when I got ready to leave the screen
> was blank, with  no indication at all that it was functioning.  I was
> getting ready to yank it out to return to MGL but thought I'd give it a
> shot, and it fired right up!  I checked the Hobbs meter and it had run on
> the flight back, and engine and flight data had been recorded....just a
> dumb blank screen in the process!  Go figure.
>
> At the very least, the moral of this story is do a thorough preflight the
> night before such a flight, but it was a spur-of-the-moment thing that
> turned out to be a bad idea.  Well, at least I have the rest of the day to
> do constructive things in the basement....
>
> Mark Langford
> m...@n56ml.com
> http://www.n56ml.com
>
>
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