My favourite mod of the last few weeks is the aircraft group who decided to save money by buying tractor LED lights……….. the lights illuminate a wide area about 25 m ahead of the aircraft, no good for landing but OK for taxing……….. at tractor speeds……. what a surprise !
Peter wrote:
I thought that job normally costs thousands
I’ll give you some names of guys who did my stuff. It’s really not expensive. In fact, I’ve seen one very expensive aviation specialist guy who did seats that just fell apart. Socata seats have steel frames or did in my TB10. Welding repairs are cheap and easy, even with an aviation welder. TFT Ilkley will give you a FAR burn cert for something like 50 quid if you have a sample 30cm x 30cm of the fabric.
A proper digital CO detector sensitive down to 1ppm for about $150
A CO detector is a useful thing, but I am not sure sensing CO at 1 ppm level has any practical sense, as it’s well below the concentration of CO in big city air. I don’t think it’s worth paying $150, either – household CO detectors are also subject to stringent certification, and a digital one with ppm indication can be bought for $20 or so. In fact, several years ago I was helping my friends move and, seeing a gas heater at their new place, convinced them to buy one of these. A couple of years later, it saved two human lives and a feline one when the chimney got clogged…
