Vor kaput

[Hankal]

On one of my $100.00 hamburger flights my VOR-Glideslope went in op.
Worked fine until I landed then at take of it would not register. I visually
checked the antenna, but every thing seemed to be OK. That afternoon I flew to
my avionics shop for a check up. Of course my plane is due for the 24 month
Static check in June.
Any ideas what could have caused it and ballpark on cost?

[Ken Reed]

> On one of my $100.00 hamburger flights my VOR-Glideslope went in op.
> Worked fine until I landed then at take of it would not register. I
> visually checked the antenna, but every thing seemed to be OK. That
> afternoon I flew to my avionics shop for a check up. Of course my
> plane is due for the 24 month Static check in June. Any ideas what
> could have caused it and ballpark on cost?

Last week mine died in a similar circumstance. It worked perfectly one
flight and was absolutely dead by the next. No warning at all. It turns
out the wiring harness simply came unplugged from the back of the
indicator.

KR

[Stan Gosnell]

(Hankal) wrote in
:

> On one of my $100.00 hamburger flights my VOR-Glideslope
> went in op. Worked fine until I landed then at take of it
> would not register. I visually checked the antenna, but
> every thing seemed to be OK. That afternoon I flew to my
> avionics shop for a check up. Of course my plane is due for
> the 24 month Static check in June.
> Any ideas what could have caused it and ballpark on cost?
>

Loose wire. VOR went bad internally. The CDI broke. Lots of
possibilities, and it's just not possible to say which is
correct without looking at the pieces. Cost depends on what
broke, again impossible to say.

--
Regards,

Stan

[Dave Johnson]

Anytime I have an avionics failure I groan as I expect at least a $500 bill.
Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised, but not often!
--
Dave Johnson, Seneca-III N82073


"Hankal" > wrote in message
...
> On one of my $100.00 hamburger flights my VOR-Glideslope went in op.
> Worked fine until I landed then at take of it would not register. I
visually
> checked the antenna, but every thing seemed to be OK. That afternoon I
flew to
> my avionics shop for a check up. Of course my plane is due for the 24
month
> Static check in June.
> Any ideas what could have caused it and ballpark on cost?
>

[Hankal]

>Anytime I have an avionics failure I groan as I expect at least a $500 bill.
>Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised, but not often!

I was pleasantly surprised. The avionics shop was honest and just fixed some
loose connections.
Of course I also had my 24 month static check performed.
Hank