You're right. This is much more entertaining than the annual PW-5
bashing or the periodic outraged name calling and reputation impugning
over 12 volts vs. 14! In my 40+ years of soaring, the failures I've
seen have been almost exclusively the result of poor workmanship, not
the wrong materials, although these do seem to go hand in hand.

But just in case your posting calms things down on the wiring front, I
assume you'd probably fly on Sunday even if your parachute repack
interval expired on Saturday?

Chip Bearden

Yikes!

Hey, how about replacing a broken variometer with a new audio vario
and actually going flying with it - instead of waiting for the
appropriate FAA - endorsed Real Smart Guy to install it and sign it
off as "legal"? I've seen a brand new working audio TE vario
(installed by overenthusiastic club members) yanked out of a club ship
because the paperwork wasn't complete and the installation didn't meet
the A&Ps standards (it was too close to the mag compass), leaving the
ship with only a dodgy mechanical vario. Absolutely correct action by
the A&P, of course. But safer? Hmmm.

No way - It 's better to be legal than safe, always. Yessir!

(Diving for cover, after unplugging the modem....)

Seriously, Safe is essential, Legal is a requirement, most often the
two are in agreement, but sometimes Safe trumps Legal. I'd rather
argue with the FAA than have them praise me posthumously.

Of course, your definition of Safe may vary....

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