Return-Path: Received: from [69.171.36.121] (account rob HELO [144.54.59.5]) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2) with ESMTP-TLS id 392769 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 11:18:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4139DCE0.9030708@Logan.com> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 11:18:56 -0400 From: Rob Logan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: P-static blew my VM1000, autopilot and trim indicator today References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit flying back from Florida once, day IMC, noticed a fuzzy feeling in my arms, and all the hairs were standing straight out.. then crack, it felt like a sharp hammer had been raped on my head.. then another sharp pain.. dang, these things hurt! the huge plexi glass canopy was generating lots of charge and it was discharging through my head! as I shrunk down to get away from the canopy the arcs just got longer and hurt more!. tried grounding my self with my elbow but was soon VMC and things returned to normal... no instrument loss, total time maybe 2mins? Rob