"Jim Carter" wrote in message
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C'mon Matt - power mowers are the way to go, but when they break it sure
is nice to still be in shape to use the slingblade if we have to. That was
my whole point.

I would hope that making the "when the damn things quit" point would be
rhetorical, just like when the engine quits, the radio quits, the vacuum
punp pukes, the NAV radio goes "boink"...

I can't see a G-V pilot keeping a sectional at their side :~)

BTW, what is the MTBF of a ADHARS versus a vacuum pump? :~)

Maybe our complaceny is more a matter of orders-of-magnitude better
reliability they provide, than the copious amounts of data they give us.

Call me careless/reckless, but if my system goes kablooie, I'd call ATC on
the handheld I always carry, declare a loss of navigation instrumentation,
and ask for vectors.

I'm probably a bit testy, but I get tired of hearing the neo-Luddite alarms.
Since there is no known instance in NTSB records of an accident after a nav
system failure, it's likely our attention should be more on losing control
when things ARE going well, such as CFIT, the (much) bigger source of
accidents.


Jim, I certainly hope you cut your grass with a slingblade.


Oh, BTW, when I mowed my grass for the firs time this year, the mower pickup
up a small rock and took out the glass in our sliding glass door for the
patio. :~(


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Matt Barrow
Performace Homes, LLC.
Colorado Springs, CO