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What are you listening to?

Re: What are you listening to?

pjdavis67 said:
Once returning to ISP, I was IFR in IMC and water got into my vacuum filter.
The DG and AI quickly filled with water, lost both of them and my A/P wanted to try to fly upside down. I was listening to a R.E.M. CD and just then "It's the End of the World" started to play. NY ATC was somewhat helpful, told me bases were 1,100'. Had to use T/C, compass, and VSI to keep me right. Now I have dual vac / electric systems.
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I am dying to know: How did water get into your vacuum lines? And how in sufficient quantity to get the AI and DG filled. Your plane [should] be using vacuum, not pressure. That means there would have needed to be a water source inside your plane?!?! Near the filter, or by a line or something?!?!

Please fill us in on this one.

Regards,
Neal
 
Re: What are you listening to?

All I am listening to are the little voices in my head..
 
Re: What are you listening to?

neald said:
I am dying to know: How did water get into your vacuum lines? And how in sufficient quantity to get the AI and DG filled. Your plane [should] be using vacuum, not pressure. That means there would have needed to be a water source inside your plane?!?! Near the filter, or by a line or something?!?!

Please fill us in on this one.

Regards,
Neal
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Water was running onto the vacuum filter inside the plane. When I brought the plane to the avionics shop, he had someone point a water hose at the plane, while we both watched the vacuum filter get soaked. The leak was fixed, instruments overhauled and has been fine ever since.
 
Re: What are you listening to?

pjdavis67 said:
Water was running onto the vacuum filter inside the plane. When I brought the plane to the avionics shop, he had someone point a water hose at the plane, while we both watched the vacuum filter get soaked. The leak was fixed, instruments overhauled and has been fine ever since.
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Amazing!

So where was the leak? The windshield?
 
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