NW_Pilot's Trans-Atlantic Flight -- All the scary details...

Larry Dighera writes:

Consider what is between you and an approaching automobile on the
highway, a white stripe, and consider what is between you and such a
catastrophic lose at a most inopportune time, a few microns of
silicon. Would cosmic particles affect electronic equipment near the
Earth's poles?

Yes, potentially, although the risk is low.

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i posted a link at a couple of cessna "type" clubs (c.p.a. and c.p.s.).
i noticed someone did that on an earlier edition so i guessed it was ok
to do that.

someone said "a more experienced pilot would have......", well, i think
he did just great. turned around, got it back on the ground, figured it
out, flew on and made the contract. i think he needs to be
congratulated for doing something really big and doing it well. i'm
about finished reading "the flying north" and i expect any of those
guys would have bought steven a beer and listened to his story.

my airplane budget looks at getting a good harness system, fuel and
engine monitors and enough gas to do some real traveling so i don't
have to worry about a G-1000 any time soon. clearly it is a cautionary
tale about putting too many avionics eggs in one glass basket.

again, jay, thanks for being the conduit on this. great stuff.


dan


Jay Honeck wrote:
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/nwpilot's_tranatlantic_flight.htm

Man, if the new details of his story doesn't chill ya, nothing will!
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

again, jay, thanks for being the conduit on this. great stuff.

It's been quite an adventure for Steven. His experiences could fill a
book already, and he's only 30!

Steven, I'm curious to know what your thought processes were in that
dire situation. Stuck in IMC over the North Atlantic, in the dark, no
primary displays, a possible carbon-monoxide leak, a known fuel leak --
I simply can't imagine it getting any worse.

You did a great job keeping everything right-side up, and your head on
straight.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Funny - these things never happen to the writers in the aviation
rags...........

On 1 Oct 2006 08:56:37 -0700, Jay Honeck wrote:

Stuck in IMC over the North Atlantic, in the dark, no
primary displays, a possible carbon-monoxide leak, a known fuel leak --
I simply can't imagine it getting any worse.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

hmm, the mother-in-law calling on the sat-phone?

#m
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message

I simply can't imagine it getting any worse.

On fire?

But he did a great job, notwithstanding any Monday-morning advice givers.
He evaluated, and made a decision that resulted in the craft and pilot on
the ground safely. What else is there?

"Jay Honeck" wrote:
Stuck in IMC over the North Atlantic, in the dark, no
primary displays, a possible carbon-monoxide leak, a known fuel leak --
I simply can't imagine it getting any worse.

Snakes.


;-)

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Steven, I'm curious to know what your thought processes were in that dire
situation.


"If I die out here, I'll never hear the end of it from the gang at
rec.aviation."


Montblack :-)

Steven, I'm curious to know what your thought processes were in that dire
situation.

"If I die out here, I'll never hear the end of it from the gang at
rec.aviation."

Funny as that may be, Steven *was* very cognizant of how he wrote this
story up, for fear of being flamed by certain members of this group.

It shames me to think that a man brave enough to do what Steven just
did is scared of screwing up a write-up for this group. And we wonder
why aviation is a shrinking club...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
Steven, I'm curious to know what your thought processes were in that dire
situation.
"If I die out here, I'll never hear the end of it from the gang at
rec.aviation."

Funny as that may be, Steven *was* very cognizant of how he wrote this
story up, for fear of being flamed by certain members of this group.

The fact is, you're always going to get flamed, no matter what you do.
You can't worry about it.