What's on YOUR Christmas list?

Well, I got a new idea as of Saturday morning. We had a nice morning trip
up to Sedona for breakfast. Life is good: cold, calm air, plane's running
good, good company at the restaurant. Then we fire up to come home, and
all
of a sudden, the Attitude Indicator doesn't know which way is up anymore!
About 10 minutes after takeoff it had figured it out, but this is not
good.
So, it's time for a new gyro.

Hey Mike -- I just went through this, with both the DG and the AI. Give the
Gyro House a call -- they've been great to work with.

See 'em at http://www.gyrohouse.com/ .
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
"Mike Adams" wrote in message
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Mike

What are you hoping to find in YOUR stocking on Christmas morn?

Rob Perkins ) wrote:

A fully paid-for glass panel 2004 Cessna 182. Hey, I can dream, can't
I?

You're not in central NY by chance, are you? I was thinking of starting a
small club with this aircraft.

--
Peter












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The bigger the boat the less likely it is to come with. There are too many options.

Also, power boaters think a GPS 'is' a knot meter but (s)he may be a sailor.

Mike Z


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:cnvDb.362531$Dw6.1195387@attbi_s02...

What the heck is a "knot meter"? A speedometer? (Or, more correctly, a
"water-speed indicator"?)

Don't boats come with those things standard?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

What the heck is a "knot meter"? A speedometer? (Or, more correctly, a
"water-speed indicator"?)

Yep. I assume for historical reasons they are called "knot meters".

Don't boats come with those things standard?

I know it's hard to believe, but unlike airplanes, speed isn't a critical
parameter on a boat. :-)

Russell Kent

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:15:29 GMT, "Harry Gordon"
wrote:

That kind of sounds like me. I am tempted to tell my wife that I want a
brand new Cessna 172SP fully loaded. Knowing her she would get me one...in a
small cardboard box made out of plastic with a note: "some assembly
required". :-).

Yes, but those don't come with the glass panel! ;-)

Rob

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:27:27 -0500, Peter R.
wrote:

Rob Perkins ) wrote:

A fully paid-for glass panel 2004 Cessna 182. Hey, I can dream, can't
I?

You're not in central NY by chance, are you? I was thinking of starting a
small club with this aircraft.

Sorry. Higher latitudes. Pacific Ocean.

Rob

Ohhh gawd, here I go again doing the broken record thing... jeez, why is it
always me that has to be the bad guy...
RANT ON
When your life depends on an instrument you do NOT overhaul/repair it, you
replace it with brand new... Ask Senator Wellstone how much he saved when
his son had the gyro system "repaired" instead of replacing with brand
new...
rant off
Secondary flight instruments, clocks, tachometers, temp gauges, etc., are
not important... Take a hammer to em for all I care... But attitude gyros,
asi, altimeter, compass, are your life...
Denny
"
Hey Mike -- I just went through this, with both the DG and the AI. Give
the
Gyro House a call -- they've been great to work with.

I've already asked for it and Santa said yes, but we both agreed that we
won't take a loan or go into debt to get it. So far we're in the price
range of a nice C170.
--
Jim Burns III

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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Ho, ho, ho....!

Me, I'm asking Santa for a new, solid-state transponder -- which is about
as
dull as socks & underwear, but the third digit on mine keeps going wacky
once in while. I *hate* it when ATC thinks I've set my squawk code
wrong...

What are you hoping to find in YOUR stocking on Christmas morn?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Dennis O'Connor"
snip
When your life depends on an instrument you do NOT overhaul/repair it, you
replace it with brand new... Ask Senator Wellstone how much he saved when
his son had the gyro system "repaired" instead of replacing with brand
new...


You've got the wrong dead Senator.

--
Montblack
http://lumma.de/mt/archives/bart.gif

In article cnvDb.362531$Dw6.1195387@attbi_s02, "Jay Honeck"
writes:

What the heck is a "knot meter"? A speedometer? (Or, more correctly, a
"water-speed indicator"?)

Don't boats come with those things standard?
--

Boat is a 1988 Catalina 36 sail boat in Lake Erie. Yes, a knotmeter measures
speed in knots thur the water. And yes, they usually have one but after 15
years, the original went TU. Until I bought the airplane a few years ago, I
thought that a boat was expensive to own.G Nice thing re boats is that you
can do the work on them if you want and don't need an A&E to sign it off.

Chuck

Chuck