"Michael 182" wrote in message
news:NlYZb.374532$xy6.1935592@attbi_s02...
Yeah - yank it out of the plane for the checkride.

Michael


"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
news:LgYZb.380119$na.569603@attbi_s04...
I made my first big IFR mistake. I fixed my intermittant ADF with
only
a few more hours of training to go until my checkride. My glorious
plan
to label it INOP (making it an expensive combination multi-channel
timer
and partial panel heading memory aid) has been thwarted by a little
tuner
cleaner on the card edge connector and the socket on the tray. A
small
part of me was hoping that the aluminum swarf that someone rained down
on it while modifying the panel (which I removed a while ago without
fully fixing the problem) had killed it for good.

Anyone have any good NDB approach tips and tricks?

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/


I'd like to back up a bit to the thwarting the intermittant ADF. We bought
a Cherokee 180C a few months back. Was told the ADF was intermittant. I
wasn't too worried, but now I'm getting heavy into IFR training. A couple
lessons seemed to find the ADF tracking fairly well (even shot approaches &
did holds). Now, it seems to "stick" quite a bit when tracking the NDB. It
might find the station fine, but during a turn, the needle doesn't follow
well. I'll flip to ANT (or whatever) to spin the needle, release & it will
get back to the station only to repeat again.

For the life of me, I cannot remember the model (it's not the ADF with the
radio and indicator in the same unit). Not being very mechanically inclined,
I'm curious about what we can do before letting a shop look at it.

Thanks!