If there were 25 million active GA pilots...

....in the USA instead of 400,000 or so:

There would be GA airports *everywhere*. They would be like beehives on the
day before Thanksgiving.

You could rent a T hangar for less than the cost of a 1 br apartment.

The accident rate would be about the same but the fatal accident rate would
be lower due to modern, more crashworthy designs.

You'd give the engine in your airplane about as much thought as you do the
one in your car. The idea of sending oil samples off for analysis at each
change would seem absurd.

Your new "family" airplane would be air conditioned. It would have a headup
synthetic vision/HITS display, emergency autoland capability, real time data
link weather and a CD/DVD player.

You'd have a second, "fun" airplane.

40-year old airplanes would all be junkers or lovingly restored classics.

Vacuum pumps would be deep in landfills.

Air traffic control would automated for most functions.

Regulation enforcement officers would be flying around, watching and
listening, but federal enforcement actions would be more uniform and fair
due to more lawyers and politicians getting busted and raising hell.

Frogs could dance and the Cubs would win the World Series.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote in message
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| Vacuum pumps would be deep in landfills.
|

You know, a lot of pilots *like* vacuum pumps. They don't want everything
dependent on a single electrical system.

The new Cessna Nav III package for 182s and 206s will be available in March.
It will have the Garmin G1000 PFD and MFD displays. Vacuum instruments
running off dual vacuum pumps will be located underneath the displays. A
Cessna 182 with Nav III will cost the same as a Cessna 182 with Nav II does
now.

"C J Campbell" wrote:
You know, a lot of pilots *like* vacuum pumps.

I'm not among them.

They don't want everything
dependent on a single electrical system.

Then have two.

The new Cessna Nav III package for 182s and 206s will be available
in March. It will have the Garmin G1000 PFD and MFD displays.
Vacuum instruments running off dual vacuum pumps will be located
underneath the displays.

What a great combination. I love Skylanes and and gadgets.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote in message
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| "C J Campbell" wrote:
| You know, a lot of pilots *like* vacuum pumps.
|
| I'm not among them.
|
| They don't want everything
| dependent on a single electrical system.
|
| Then have two.
|
| The new Cessna Nav III package for 182s and 206s will be available
| in March. It will have the Garmin G1000 PFD and MFD displays.
| Vacuum instruments running off dual vacuum pumps will be located
| underneath the displays.
|
| What a great combination. I love Skylanes and and gadgets.

And the Nav III package even gives you two electrical systems, just like you
want.

Two electrical systems, two vacuum systems, redundancy in everything except
engines and airframes.

I have heard that Cessna sold out 2004 withing 24 hrs of the G1000
announcement.

Mike
MU-2


"C J Campbell" wrote in message
...

"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote in message
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| "C J Campbell" wrote:
| You know, a lot of pilots *like* vacuum pumps.
|
| I'm not among them.
|
| They don't want everything
| dependent on a single electrical system.
|
| Then have two.
|
| The new Cessna Nav III package for 182s and 206s will be available
| in March. It will have the Garmin G1000 PFD and MFD displays.
| Vacuum instruments running off dual vacuum pumps will be located
| underneath the displays.
|
| What a great combination. I love Skylanes and and gadgets.

And the Nav III package even gives you two electrical systems, just like
you
want.

Two electrical systems, two vacuum systems, redundancy in everything
except
engines and airframes.

"Mike Rapoport" wrote:
I have heard that Cessna sold out 2004 withing 24 hrs of the
G1000 announcement.

Wow.

"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet writes:

They don't want everything dependent on a single electrical system.

Then have two.

If you have smoke in the cockpit, you'll have to turn them both off.


All the best,


David

"David Megginson" wrote:
They don't want everything dependent on a single electrical
system.

Then have two.

If you have smoke in the cockpit, you'll have to turn them both
off.

Good point. I'd *still* rather have two electrical systems than one
electrical and one vacuum.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote in message
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Then have two.

When you are IMC with smoke in your cockpit, how do you know which
electrical system to shut down?

--
Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com

"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message
s.com...
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| "Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote in message
| ...
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| Then have two.
|
| When you are IMC with smoke in your cockpit, how do you know which
| electrical system to shut down?

You shut down both of them and wait for the smoke to clear. Then you
cautiously turn them on one at a time and see which one produces smoke.