172SP...signs of alternator failure?

[gkrangers]

Ok, heres the deal.

Chad is gonna fly up the alternator, the guys here wll install it, then Chad will fly home and I'll fly on to NJ.

OR, if the plane is still broken, we'll leave the plane here and me and Chad will go back to EVB.

 

[gkrangers]

So about 20 hours after I left New Smyrna, I finally made it to NJ. (7 hours of flying time)

Big thanks to Cforst for flying up the alternater!

 

[cforst513]

i'm so freakin' tired i could cry.

i didn't get home til after 3am and i had to work at 7:30. you owe me. big time. find me a hot riddle girl.


oh wait, nevermind....

 

[Pedro]

Did they make you pay for the flight to fly the alternator?

 

[cforst513]

i couldn't get them to pay for the whole thing. they had someone else lined up, and i need the hours. it put me over 200, though!! jeez, i can't believe i'm so close to my commercial goal. it seems VERY far away when you have less than 100 hours...

 

[gkrangers]

30 knot headwind all the way to the NC/SC border...GREAT!

 

[erj-145mech]

Hey, it still gets logged a cross country time, ehh. Its time logged by hours and not miles. When I was prepping for my pvt checkride, the CFI noticed that I was short .3 XC time. A dual XC at night, under the hood, slow flight sure adds a lot of columns in the old log book.

 

[cforst513]

Hey, it still gets logged a cross country time, ehh. Its time logged by hours and not miles. When I was prepping for my pvt checkride, the CFI noticed that I was short .3 XC time. A dual XC at night, under the hood, slow flight sure adds a lot of columns in the old log book.

heh heh, that's the way my instructor told me to build my 250hrs for commercial. but i don't like just putzing along, so i got on 6 hour trips at 110kts. besides, i see more of the country that way

 

[gkrangers]

Well I'm leaving...be back around 9PM hopefully.

 

[cforst513]

Well I'm leaving...be back around 9PM hopefully.

makes you wish "Beam me up, Scotty!!" was a practical phrase, doesn't it?

 

[gkrangers]

makes you wish "Beam me up, Scotty!!" was a practical phrase, doesn't it?

Indeed...I'm fogged in. Waiting for things to lift a bit.

I figure Depart here 11:30...Get to EVB before midnight hopefully.

 

[cforst513]

fogged in? fogged in?!? whaddya mean "fogged in"? i've taken off and landed 0/0. our SP's are CAT III certified, and i thought you were too!!!


i have a feeling it's going to get later and later and....

 

[gkrangers]

I'm back...landed at 9PM.

The alternator is in the backseat with the bill if anyone wants it.

 

[molson247]

wow....glad you landed. I'm sure all of flightinfo was worried! Most of this thread could have been kept to private messaging!!

 

[gkrangers]

wow....glad you landed. I'm sure all of flightinfo was worried! Most of this thread could have been kept to private messaging!!

Nice first post asshole.

 

[molson247]

We've all had aircraft troubles before from vaccuum pump failures to transponder failures....but we're not going to go to flightinfo and give up to the minute details of the situation.

 

[gkrangers]

We've all had aircraft troubles before from vaccuum pump failures to transponder failures....but we're not going to go to flightinfo and give up to the minute details of the situation.

Maybe I'm not as experienced as everyone here and this was my first "significant" equipment failure, on my first trip way away from home, and I wanted all the advice I could get?

But sorry if my thread somehow managed to inconvienence you.

 

[cforst513]

molson, you got sand in your vagina or what?

 

[BushwickBill]

molson, you got sand in your vagina or what?

Yar Har! Har har har! Arg me mateys!