First repairs needed

[McMooney]

ARGGHHHH, figured I would go out today get some touch and goes in, maybe do some night landings but 

it seems the airplane gods are out to get me.  

The shiny new stratus appareo transponder up and died, I suspected that thing was junk.

 

what to do now?  9th day of ownership and already needs repairs sigh

[Guitarmaster]

Should be under warranty. Mine has preformed flawlessly for none months now.

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[Sean S]

Had mine for 9 months as well, works great! Hopefully warranty will cover it.

[Yetti]

Circuit breaker/fuse then reseat the unit in the tray

[steingar]

The day I scrub a VFR flight for a balky transponder...

[Brandontwalker]

Mine has been great. Don't give up on it yet.


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[N201MKTurbo]

1 hour ago, steingar said:

The day I scrub a VFR flight for a balky transponder...

You obviously don't live under a mode C vail...

[steingar]

Just now, N201MKTurbo said:

You obviously don't live under a mode C vail...

Adjacent, but not underneath.  A good point.  The OP didn't give a location, so I couldn't tell.

[N201MKTurbo]

39 minutes ago, steingar said:

Adjacent, but not underneath.  A good point.  The OP didn't give a location, so I couldn't tell.

You can still get a no transponder waver if you talk to them real nice.

[rbridges]

1 hour ago, N201MKTurbo said:

You obviously don't live under a mode C vail...

one of the advantages of living in the boonies.  

[rbridges]

12 hours ago, McMooney said:

ARGGHHHH, figured I would go out today get some touch and goes in, maybe do some night landings but 

it seems the airplane gods are out to get me.  

The shiny new stratus appareo transponder up and died, I suspected that thing was junk.

 

what to do now?  9th day of ownership and already needs repairs sigh

if the airplane gods hated you, it would have gone out the day after the warranty expired, not 9 days into it.  But yeah, it's aggravating.

[steingar]

2 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

You can still get a no transponder waver if you talk to them real nice.

Been there done that, in Philadelphia even.  I did talk to them nicely, though.

[Jim Peace]

15 hours ago, McMooney said:

 go out today get some touch and goes in

the transponder failing may have saved your life...........

[N201MKTurbo]

4 minutes ago, Jim Peace said:

the transponder failing may have saved your life...........

What is that, one fatality for every 10 touch and gos?

[KLRDMD]

20 hours ago, McMooney said:

ARGGHHHH, figured I would go out today get some touch and goes in, maybe do some night landings.

Both the Mooney Pilot Proficiency Program and Beech Pilot Proficiency Program disallow touch and goes. When I do Mooney transition training I do not allow touch and goes.

[TheTurtle]

my tponder once went out in flight.  worked fine when i took off.

[Hank]

I'm with you, Mc! Been down a while chasing demons out of my left magneto, will be doing some touch and goes to make sure I still know how to land. Will probably do one or two to a full stop first, it's been way too long . . . .

[McMooney]

woot it's fixed, Ray from Texas Flight came over and after giving me the stupid owner/pilot look proceeded to screw the transponder into its tray.

 

I'm based in Houston KDWH.   Got in 5 trips around the pattern,  3 squeakers, 1 good and 1 teeth rattler

[Sean S]

Glad it was an easy fix!

[steingar]

9 hours ago, McMooney said:

woot it's fixed, Ray from Texas Flight came over and after giving me the stupid owner/pilot look proceeded to screw the transponder into its tray.

Doncha hate it when that happens?

[Cooperd0g]

On 7/13/2017 at 8:30 PM, KLRDMD said:

Both the Mooney Pilot Proficiency Program and Beech Pilot Proficiency Program disallow touch and goes. When I do Mooney transition training I do not allow touch and goes.

Why are they disallowed? 

[Yetti]

3 hours ago, Cooperd0g said:

Why are they disallowed? 

Some believe that they will lead to a gear up or worse.  Some believe they are good practice.  It's a Ford Chevy Pickup discussion.

[Hank]

1 hour ago, Yetti said:

Some believe that they will lead to a gear up or worse.  Some believe they are good practice.  It's a Ford Chevy Pickup discussion.

Booo Ford! Yaay, touch n go!     

[Urs_Wildermuth]

On ‎14‎.‎07‎.‎2017 at 3:09 PM, steingar said:

Doncha hate it when that happens?

No, I am bloody glad it's not something expensive which is broken! Being a stupid owner comes cheap in this instance.

[Cooperd0g]

1 hour ago, Yetti said:

Some believe that they will lead to a gear up or worse.  Some believe they are good practice.  It's a Ford Chevy Pickup discussion.

Interesting. I have probably done thousands of touch and go's in retractable gear planes. But I would never argue with those groups as a student , that's for sure.