I D 10 T problem

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How dumb can one be?

Well, pretty dumb.  Picture a beautiful Sunday morning.  My best (and only girl) is by my side.  We are out to the home drome and meet some friends who decide on a 50 mile run to a cozy little airfield with a neat lunch counter for flying joy and some lunch. In the end only two aircraft go to Lachute.  Our E model and a Cherokee 140.  The Cherokee leaves before we do.

After engine start and still in my parking spot, I try and turn on my AV8OR.  I don't need it for this trip, but I just got a replacement cable that stays connected and I want to try it out. 

It won't turn on.  So I left it.  Do taxi checks.  Get to runup point.  Try and turn it on again.  No joy.  Do runup checks.  Taxi to hold-short point.  Do hold short checks.  Do pre-takoff checks. Line up and airborne.  Settled at 4,500' and try and turn it on again.  No joy.

Land at Lachute and enjoy girl, food, company and prepare to depart back to Rockcliffe.  Repeat all the same process for the return.  Still no joy on the AV8OR.

By the time we cover the aircraft and complete the tiedown back in its parking spot, I have come to the realisation that I will probably have to send it back to the factory for some repair.  It's only 9 months old.  Cheeesh!!

Get home and pull it out to examine it and there it is.  The locking butting is in the locked position. It is meant to prevent a driver from fiddling with the unit while driving.  That includes powering it up.  Normally it is always off, but it is close enough to the power entry point that I probably flicked it playing with the new cord.

Duh.....

I D 10 T ("Eye Dee Ten Tee") problem.   Well at least I don't have to send it back to the factory......

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Jim:

Thanks for the support and no need for embarrassement. 

Dumb people don't learn from their own mistakes.  Smart people do.  Wise people learn from the mistakes of others. Do you realise how many more wise people we have created by writing our stories?  The AnywhereMap and AV8OR manufacturers should pay us for this.

In my current life, I am a quality professional.  Not the type that beats people into following the rules.  The type that fixes the rules so that people can follow them.  We teach that learning from other's lessons is a really good way of doing things better. 

Sometimes, on really good days, we learn the best way to do something because we tried it and it worked....much more emotionally rewarding than learning from someone's mistakes.  Those types of days are generally rare.

"Wishing you skies below, runway ahead and lots of time to get out of the scrapes we may find ourselves heading for."