Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net> (Marvin Kaye)
To: lml
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:53:25 -0400
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From: "Lorn H. Olsen" <lorn@dynacomm.ws>
Subject: [LML] Re: Vacuum v. all electric
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>Just for your data bank, the vacuum pump failed on my 320 after 824 Tach
>hours.  I always fly VFR just for failure fears of the vacuum system.  I
>will up or down through an overcast with good vis above and below 
>but NEVER hard IFR enroute.  And I'm an 11,000 hours type, 
>military/corporate.  Yours is good advise.
>
>George Shattuck

I fly cross country a lot. I like to go somewhere on Friday or 
Saturday and come back on Sunday or Monday. I can't afford military 
and/or corporate aircraft or I would fly them.

Somewhere... either here, 500 miles from here or along the way, 
within 3 days there will be bad weather.

I hand fly, in my Lancair, hard IFR, sometimes for hours at a time. I 
have a Navaid AP but when there is turbulence forget about it.

I will takeoff IFR, fly IFR and land IFR to published minimums. I 
personally, don't like to do all 3 of these on the same flight 
because it is to hard to handle all of the paper and fly the plane at 
the same time. With a great autopilot or a copilot I would do all 3.
-- 
Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, MAA, DynaComm, Corp.
248-478-4301, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.ws
LNC2, O-320-D1F, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan