David,
Nice story did you have a passenger with you?
Please say yes........
Kev T
Happy Europa owner done 30 hours since getting it 3 weeks ago and every day
is more fun!!
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From: forum-owner@europaclub.org.uk
Subject: Non anonymous reporting
Another contribution to the "this too could happen to you, if you are dumb
enough" genre. Should be anon but I am old enough and ugly enough to have
lost my sensitivity on such matters!
On my recent trip across Europe I was approaching the Czech border,
looking at the scenery which was highish hills covered with wall to wall
forest and thinking that this was a bit of country I would think twice about
gliding over. It occurred to me that I could do with a pee so that I could
face the challenge of Czech ATC in a more relaxed state, so went ahead. The
bottle lives in the cubbyhole under the pilot's left thigh support and I
lifted my left leg up in the air to put the bottle back. Having settled back
in my now relaxed state I looked at the panel to find that GPS, Radio,
transponder, Flydat, Navaid etc were all dead. It didn't take too long to
realise that I was clean out of electricity and to recall that the engine
(914)was therefore running on the contents of its carburetors, and that in
very short time I would be gliding! Fortunately it did not take an Einstein
to discover that my left trouser leg had flipped the master and alternator
toggle switches down in the previous manoeuvres and to restore them before
we got to the gliding state. Happy flying, David Joyce
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