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"Jon Woellhaf" wrote:

Why did you lose your engine gauges?

"Ron Garret" wrote in message
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I declared my first ever emergency yesterday after encountering
unexpected ice. I only accumulated about 1/4 inch so it wasn't that big
a deal, but I lost my engine gauges (I fly an SR22), which included my
OAT, so I went ahead and declared so I could descend below the MEA to
shed the ice before anything else went wrong. About a minute after
declaring I broke out into VMC.

My question is: is there any FAA paperwork I need to do? I already
filed an ASRS form.

Thanks,
rg

Probably ice accumulating somewhere and shorting something out, but I
don't really know and probably never will. I lost the electronic engine
gauges, not the mechanical backups. But that means I lost my OAT, so
despite being in VMC I decided to divert so that I could take stock,
file a PIREP, get a weather update, and unwind a bit. Once on the
ground I power-cycled the avionics but the problem persisted. But when
I tried again about 20 minutes later it had fixed itself. (Either that
or the FBO had an incredibly good maintenance department. :-)

rg