AviationBanter - View Single Post - backup for vacuum pump/attitude indicator failure

**A Lieberma** · November 19th 06, 06:04 PM posted to rec.aviation.owning,rec.aviation.ifr

(Frank Ch. Eigler) wrote in
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Considering the nature of the 172, you likely don't engage in too much
heavy duty IMC, so backup equipment could be of the "help me land now"
kind rather than "help me fly for a few hours more" kind.

Why would you say this based on a model of a plane?

Original poster sounded like an owner, not a renter looking to upgrade /
install backup redundancy.

I own a Sundowner (might as well say a 172 equivelant) and do hard IMC as
much as I can so I have been following this thread rather closely myself.

Just because it's a C172 doesn't mean the plane won't be flown in hard IFR
on a frequent basis unless of course it's not an IFR certified bird in
which that kinda plane shouldn't be anywhere near a cloud anyway.

Allen