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Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 17:48:04 -0400
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
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To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Into the blue again :-)
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Haywire wrote:
> Message    Today we flew for 6.3 hrs and everything was great again. We
> calibrated a few items including the electronic governor for the IVO prop.
> What a difference that makes. Also calibrated the PSS AOA and the Dynon AOA
> and they each are phenomenal tools. The engine is running great with no
> major issues at all. I do have a little tweaking to do on the low MAP table,
> but nothing urgent. Then only problem that I had today was that my Sony Vaio
> laptop doesn't seem to like high altitude. I have a small Vaio and have
> built a place for it to mount easily and use it to display Jeppenson's
> FlightMap in-flight GPS program. It works great until 10,300' where it would
> then display the blue screen and then reboot. After the 4th time it refused
> to reboot again so now I'm forced to use the system recovery disc and wipe
> the disc clean. I hate to think about all the files that I said I would
> back-up soon... :-(. My old laptop still works fine(using it now) so maybe
> I'll try it tomorrow.

All hard drives have a spinning platter with a read/write head riding a 
cushion of air just above it.  Go to 10,300' and there isn't much of a 
cushion left.  The head will fall into the platter turning at 7500 or 
10000 rpm.  I think you'll be lucky if the drive ever works again.

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