{"id":115,"date":"2012-01-30T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2012-03-10T08:23:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:23:26","slug":"failed-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Difficult Maintenance Decisions &#8211; Weak Attitude Indicator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My attitude indicator showed signs during the last three flights of spinning up and erecting slowly. Just last week when I came home from Florida, the AI took 10 minutes to spin up and didn&#8217;t erect until after liftoff and and at full power.<\/p>\n<p>I made the decision to watch it after I returned. Kinda tired of spending money and chasing squawks. That lasted for a few days, and as my next long cross country got closer, I ended up ordering a replacement unit. Georgetown Air Services graciously agreed to get the new unit here in a day, and get it installed by Wednesday.  Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, when I flew the airplane down there tonight(33N-KGED), the AI erected in less than two minutes, like nothing in the world was wrong. I used to let this stuff drive me crazy, but replacing this unit was the right thing to do. Particularly after all the low approaches I&#8217;ve been executing in actual.<\/p>\n<p>Spoke with Chuck on the ground to make myself feel better:  &#8216;an ounce of prevention&#8217; is not a bad way to go. He&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My attitude indicator showed signs during the last three flights of spinning up and erecting slowly. Just last week when I came home from Florida, the AI took 10 minutes to spin up and didn&#8217;t erect until after liftoff and and at full power. I made the decision to watch it after I returned. Kinda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-home-page","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}