Gear: Scary moment this morning

[Oscar Avalle]

Well, yesterday I got the plane back to KGAI. Some minor squawks and a larger one. My Vacuum pump went belly up after I took off from Miami. So my backup (My ASPEN) is primary was dead... But otherwise the flight was LONG but no issue. I stopped at Lowcountry Regional in SC, got some gas and then on to KGAI. Once I got close to the DC SFAR area I got a LONG reroute and then I landed at KGAI. So now my videos will be about the NE... not so exotic...

 

[Marauder]

Well, yesterday I got the plane back to KGAI. Some minor squawks and a larger one. My Vacuum pump went belly up after I took off from Miami. So my backup (My ASPEN) is primary was dead... But otherwise the flight was LONG but no issue. I stopped at Lowcountry Regional in SC, got some gas and then on to KGAI. Once I got close to the DC SFAR area I got a LONG reroute and then I landed at KGAI. So now my videos will be about the NE... not so exotic...

 

I'm not sure I followed what you wrote. Your vacuum pump died and what happened to the Aspen?

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[Oscar Avalle]

Nothing happened to the ASPEN. The irony was that the backup failed...

 

 

[thinwing]

Well hey that is why we spent the big dough to install solid state ahrs be it aspen or garment....to escape the 500-700 Jr. Mean time between vac instrument failures!!