If there were 25 million active GA pilots...

I've never seen a vacuum failure, in over 800 hours of flying.
(Although I
did experience a vacuum attitude indicator failure a couple of months
ago...)

I experienced my first vacuum failure about 100 hours after I bought
my Warrior.

Augh -- I KNEW I shouldn't have said anything like that out loud! My DG
just went belly-up on my flight to Pella yesterday.

It's totally, 100% dead -- no movement or gyro spinning up at all. And I
just replaced the AI last month.

But the vacuum is still reading a good strong "5", for whatever that's
worth.

Nothing like losing both of your vacuum instruments within a month of each
other...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Augh -- I KNEW I shouldn't have said anything like that out loud! My DG
just went belly-up on my flight to Pella yesterday.

It's totally, 100% dead -- no movement or gyro spinning up at all. And I
just replaced the AI last month.

But the vacuum is still reading a good strong "5", for whatever that's
worth.

I wonder if it's spewing junk into your gyros -- did you change the
central air filter (or whatever it's called) when you installed the
new AI?


All the best,


David

I wonder if it's spewing junk into your gyros -- did you change the
central air filter (or whatever it's called) when you installed the
new AI?

Dunno -- I would assume that my A&P would know to check that, but I'm sure
going to be asking him now... (He just called me to say that all the lines
and fitting are tight, eliminating the cheap and easy problems...)

It's always something with airplanes, isn't it?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"