{"id":339,"date":"2006-09-10T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2006-09-10T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T17:52:00","slug":"339","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/10\/339\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Problem solving<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday I started my cross country trip from Delaware to California and then Reno for the Air races. On Friday night I flew IFR to NC21 and stayed with some old friends of mine. A perfectly delightful flight with no problems. On Saturday morning, I left for the second leg from the Charlotte area to Dallas where I was going to have dinner with some friends. About 20 miles east of Texarkana I started to have some electrical problems with my radios. I called Memphis Center and told them of my problems and they gave me a vector to Texarkana – Memphis Center was great while I worked through my problems and figured out that my alternator had given up. I turned off all non vital instruments and told Memphis center that I did not need to declare an emergency and could continue on to ADS ( Addison TX) but I had to continue as a VFR flight.<\/p>\n

I landed in Dallas and one of my friends picked me up and took me to my hotel to clean up and get ready for dinner. At dinner last night I went through the procedure I went through as I worked through my problems. It did not seem unusual to me. Del Frisco’s was great again!<\/p>\n

This morning at breakfast with my buddies they wanted me to go over again the procedures I went through while flying my plane with the electrical problems. To the non pilots it was very surprising the way I followed procedures and worked with Memphis approach to solve my problem while flying. But that is the reason for training and procedures, perhaps 20 years ago before I had my pilot’s license it would have surprised me too.<\/p>\n

Procedure and training can’t cover every eventuality, but it helped me a lot in my little adventure last night, and it is why we have so many written operational procedures at Zerowait.<\/p>\n

This morning I called the mechanics back in Delaware and we did some more trouble shooting and I am going to have to repair my alternator. Oh well . Its always something. But Dallas is a great place to be stranded for an extra day!<\/p>\n

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