Big John wrote in
:

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:53:22 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

" wrote in news:6320e4d4-a223-
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:

On Jan 24, 10:19 am, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:

Correct. So if two pilots who have far superior skill and
judegement
than you or I, that are flying one of the most technically advanced
GA
aircraft on the market can get into trouble, the rest of us should
take a moment to pause.

-Robert

The G1000 equipped 182 may be technically advanced, but I'm not a
big
fan of the backup instrument layout and the lack of an electrically-
driven turn coordinator.


Whats the backup consist of?


Bertie


Bertie

Let me use your post to tell another war story.

When The Air defense Command took delivery on the F-106 it was their
first bird to have tape gauges and all the gauges were tied to a
common power supply that ran most if not all of the electrical things
in bird.

That power supply failed very often leaving the bird without
instruments, Instead of grounding the fleet until the problem was
fixed (took over a year) we only flew the F-106 in pairs, day, night,
IFR, etc. If one bird had a failure he recovered in formation on the
wing of the other bird.

That was our redundancy )



Well, that and the bang seat!


Bertie