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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Apr 19, 2006
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This sucker is BIG with a capital K! Check out the ship in the distance. You take a heading, set your GPS and sing yourself a little song while you wait for land to appear on the other side.
And I must admit, I was wishing I had one of Col Gracy’s AOA’s about now. What was I thinking to not have one of those? So I was doing my TLAR navigation and reluctantly checking it with the GPS and the clean sheet of paper in my lap when I reached over to flip on Charlie's brandy-new gilhooy ANR headset and heard 'POP'!!!!!
...followed by 'beep beep beep beep'... the GPS telling me its going to battery in 17, 16, 15, 14 seconds...
'What the hell?....' A quick glance at the panel (briefly removing eyes from outside the cockpit), I saw that everything was offline! Oh shite!... Eyes back outside... 3, 2, 1, another look at the electrics.......... oh double shite! Its all dead, the radio, transponder, all the engine gauges... did I mention the radio?????
I checked the breakers, turned the avionics on and off.... nothing... crap! The only thing that was working was the GPS.
Oh man I'm gonna have to go find land, an airport, land without a radio, hope there's an A&P that feels like dropping his work and helping, and all this without an AOA!
But getting to land won't be a problem with this handy dandy PA 28 gallon long range fuel tank full of 100LL... 'unless you're on fire', says Bob Hoover in my battery operated headset!
FIRE???... what?... oh man!!!!! Something BIG electrically just happened and no breakers are flipped so some spark or flame must be going on in the panel... oh crap! So I shut the windows to see if I could smell something... sniff sniff and hyperventilating sniff was interrupted only by some old curmudgeon saying 'first comes the test, then comes the lesson... first the test, then comes the lesson'...
'WILL YOU STOP TALKING WHILE I'M TAKING MY TEST PLEASE'!
My old buddy would relish much and talk the most if I went down and bent up Charlie's plane. Dang the injustice! If I only had an AOA! I should have listened!
So that’s when I noticed the master switch…. IT WAS OFF!!!!!!!!! Apparently I bumped it with my lanky knee while squirming around to flip on the cool ANR gilhooy. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, relief so sweet, I didn’t even feel a little stupid  :)
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Apr 19, 2006
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Chesapeake Bay
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Charles Pickett - Apr 19,2006
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been there done that
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Rick Oreair - Apr 19,2006
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Only problem was the AOA wouldn't work without electrics ! What you really needed was Col Gracy's yarn turn coordinator! <br /><br />Nice photos Brett!
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Tom Lansing - Apr 26,2006
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Actually a Reserve Lift Indicator would be nice, All it takes is air & for a 100 bucks how can you beat it.
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Bruce Bennett - Apr 19,2006
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Good story Bret, and great pictures!! JB
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John Robert Dunlop - Apr 19,2006
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Fantastic Bret! What pucker factor! Now you're ready for Georgian Bay!
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Don Maxwell - Apr 19,2006
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Scary moment, all right! The Bay IS long, Bret--but you never have to paddle more than 20 nautical miles to find the shore.
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Robert Lee - Apr 20,2006
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A compass, chart and air speed indicator, will get you anywhere in VFR.
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Kenneth Leonard - Apr 20,2006
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RL - I hear what you are saying about the joys of minimalistic flight (I love cubs)<br />but I'll bet the folks with airspace showing on thier moving maps have a much lower airspace violation rate than the others. That quick glance is mighty reasurring when you're not over familiar territory. When we have the next Wash, DC evacuation for a lost C-172, some politician is going to mandate moving maps with airspace.
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