Jay Honeck wrote:
: We've all done it. You get to the airport, and discover that you forgot to
: plug the danged thing in last night. It's freezing in the hangar, and
: you've got passengers who want to go *now*. Do you plug in your Tanis
: heater and tell them to wait an hour? Nope -- you just cringe and go.

I tried once... was going to go for a quick flight with family friends while
in Milwaukee for Christmas. It was about 30 degrees in the morning but I hadn't
planned on flying so didn't ask the FBO to plug it in. As you said... "cringe and
go"... except for the go part. Rolled it over and over but REFUSED to start. Came
back 1/2 hour later with Tanis plugged in (and 35 degrees outside) and started fine.
I figure it was iced-up plugs and that it was trying to tell me something...

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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