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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.
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Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, MAA, DynaComm, Corp.
248-478-4301, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.ws
LNC2, O-320-D1F, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan
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