Marco Leon wrote:

Do you use the Bo to commute on Mondays and Thursdays? A coworker does
that on a similar schedule but he looks at the overnight delays as a
small price to pay for the increased freedom and convenience of flying
himself. Then again, he doesn't have a one-year old.

Yes, I use the aircraft to commute for work. I fly out Monday and return
Thursdays and have been doing this every week since late February 2005, or
about 73 weeks (save for one week when the aircraft was in annual and one
week where t-storms were way too foreboding on a Monday AM). This
translates to roughly 140 flights, or 140 perfect opportunities for this
mechanical failure.

The two airports between which I commute are both major, class C airports
with mechanics on duty 24 hours a day. The irony of sorts is that had the
starter failed at either end of these weekly commutes, the impact would
have been quite minimal. Instead, the unit $hit the bed at the most
inopportune time: Far from home and with no help on the field. Murphy's
Law at its best.

Sorry for the lament and sorry to the OP for hijacking his thread.

--
Peter