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Mike:

Thanks for the words. I actually wrote the note about my experience with the
flap pivot-pin to alert other 235 drivers to a potentially disasterous
failure mode, but I guess buried in it was the idea that if something feels
different than what you're used to - you should stop and check it out before
further flight. I'm not all that sure it has anything to do with smarts -
but it sure has a lot to do with self-preservation!

It seems to me that if you feel something even a little bit strange with how
your airplane reacts, relative to how it usually feels, it's only common
sense to stop flying immediately and get to the bottom of it. Hoping the
"strange" will go away of it's own accord is dangerous wishful thinking -
and I can't think of one single time that wishful thinking screwed a nut
back onto a bolt, or got rid of a load of water in your fuel, or etc.

Obviously, the cause can be benign but why take the chance?

Dan Schaefer

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