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From: Lorn H Olsen <lorn@dynacomm.ws>
Subject: Re: Panel Question

Rod,

I would not put anything extra in the airplane that had nothing to do  
with flying and just to do with regulations.

If your regulation required instruments start to go on a stormy  
night, it is just not your day. Land. Get a room. Relax.  Have a  
drink. Watch a movie. Live to fly again another day.

My policy is to count the things that go wrong before a flight. Once  
the count hits 3, I don't fly. Some days are just not your day.
e.g. 1) I forgot my coffee cup, 2) weather looks bad, 3) tires are  
low. Thats it. No flying today.

Lorn

> Date: December 24, 2007 11:45:15 PM GMT-05:00
>
>  John,
>
> If it were my IVP (or any other), I would definitely put the  
> transponder on the bottom, and add an identical one below that as a  
> matching pair. It appears that you have the panel space. A  
> transponder is a go-no-go item for IFR. I wouldn't want to be  
> forced to land in rural Podunk Airport on a Friday night in bad  
> weather, and be stuck there until VFR weather resumes or until  
> Monday morning, whichever comes first, to have the transponder  
> fixed or replaced.
>   Rod Pharis, Legacy 40% SEL/MEL, COMM, Inst
>
>> I am finalizing the setup of my instrument panel -- LIVP.  Gary  
>> Wirrell of Aerotronics wants to know if I prefer the Tru Trak AP  
>> on the bottom of the


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Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, MAA, ASMEL, ASES, Comm, Inst
DynaComm, Corp., 248-345-0500, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.ws
LNC2, FB90/92, O-320-D1F, 1,300 hrs, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan