I got a chance to go flying the other night. Technically, the excuse was that I haven’t been night-current for a long time, but you & I know that it’s just because it’s fun to fly. I had had a fairly stressful set of days at work, and I just needed the stress relief.
The flight was effortless and smooth, taking off about dusk. I did accomplish 5 night landings.
and Alas, not everything was roses. The left strobe refused to light up. I think I may have done some damage to the electrical connector when I first attempted to replace the wing after installing the AoA hardware. I recall the AoA connector being wedged between the electrical connector. That will be where I start debugging, anyway.
When I had installed the new SV-GPS-2020, I received an error message which I mistakenly attributed to no GPS signal inside the hanger. Nope. It was the SkyView trying to tell me that there was no GPS receiver. In other words, the new one wasn’t working. Yesterday, I was able to have a friend help me get the canopy off and I opened up the avionics bay. Unfortunately, the new one is wired correctly. I got my old one and soldered on new pins (I had cut off the old connector as I don’t have an insertion/extraction tool). Plugging it into the system resulted in a “no position” error for about 3 minutes, then everything worked fine.
I ordered a replacement today from Van’s, along with the extraction tool. They will give me a credit when I return the defective new unit. BTW, I’ll do a temporary test installation of the new unit before I run its cables and install it.
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