Bryan Wood
Well Known Member
Greetings,
Yesterday we went on a lunch flyout with a local club, followed by a long taxi of approx. 1 1/2 miles to to a museum on the other side of the airport from the restuarant. Of all times to forget to lean out while running at low power this extremely long taxi got me. Later when we went to leave we were last in line at the runup with sundown approaching quickly. For the first time since learning to fly my mag check failed. It didn't have a little drop, it barely ran when I switched to the mag. The other side is a lightspeed electronic which ran just fine. So there I sat watching the last plane take off in front of us and my airplane running poorly. After leaning agressively and running the engine up for a minute or so, until I just couldn't take holding the brakes any more while the plane tried to hop out of the runup area I tried another mag check. There was about a 500-600rpm drop and a backfire which scared my wife. It was now that the vision came of my tools nicely sitting in a case on the work bench in the hanger instead of in the baggage area where they belong. Sheepishly I called out on the radio that my mags failed and asked if somebody with tools could come back. This is an embarrassing call anouncing to everybody within 150 miles or so on unicom that I'm to stupid to carry tools, please help. Help came, and the bottom plug on number 4 was the problem. Cleaned it up and the plane ran great. Off we went and I got to log a little night time flight on the way home.
This did get me thinking... What do you all carry for tools and parts? I'd like to have a setup that can get me through the typical problems. Here's a list of things that I typically carry, but would like to learn from others experiences.
Spark Plug sockets and a 2 ratchets (auto and aviation sizes)
4 new auto plugs, one aviation plug
2 9/16" deep sockets to pull the nosewheel
Allen wrench for nosewheel fairing
3/8,7/16,/1/2,9/16 wrenches
6" inch cresent
needle nose pliers
small diagonal cutters
duct tape
tie wraps
measured lenghts of safety wire (curled up and labeled for length)
extra fuel cap
thread anti seize
cotter keys
assortment of bolts, screws, locknuts, washers,etc.
Valve cover bolts
pop rivet assortment/cheap small rivet puller
screwdriver with assorted bits
air pressure guage
What am I missing? What have you found that you needed and didn't have?
Regards,
Yesterday we went on a lunch flyout with a local club, followed by a long taxi of approx. 1 1/2 miles to to a museum on the other side of the airport from the restuarant. Of all times to forget to lean out while running at low power this extremely long taxi got me. Later when we went to leave we were last in line at the runup with sundown approaching quickly. For the first time since learning to fly my mag check failed. It didn't have a little drop, it barely ran when I switched to the mag. The other side is a lightspeed electronic which ran just fine. So there I sat watching the last plane take off in front of us and my airplane running poorly. After leaning agressively and running the engine up for a minute or so, until I just couldn't take holding the brakes any more while the plane tried to hop out of the runup area I tried another mag check. There was about a 500-600rpm drop and a backfire which scared my wife. It was now that the vision came of my tools nicely sitting in a case on the work bench in the hanger instead of in the baggage area where they belong. Sheepishly I called out on the radio that my mags failed and asked if somebody with tools could come back. This is an embarrassing call anouncing to everybody within 150 miles or so on unicom that I'm to stupid to carry tools, please help. Help came, and the bottom plug on number 4 was the problem. Cleaned it up and the plane ran great. Off we went and I got to log a little night time flight on the way home.
This did get me thinking... What do you all carry for tools and parts? I'd like to have a setup that can get me through the typical problems. Here's a list of things that I typically carry, but would like to learn from others experiences.
Spark Plug sockets and a 2 ratchets (auto and aviation sizes)
4 new auto plugs, one aviation plug
2 9/16" deep sockets to pull the nosewheel
Allen wrench for nosewheel fairing
3/8,7/16,/1/2,9/16 wrenches
6" inch cresent
needle nose pliers
small diagonal cutters
duct tape
tie wraps
measured lenghts of safety wire (curled up and labeled for length)
extra fuel cap
thread anti seize
cotter keys
assortment of bolts, screws, locknuts, washers,etc.
Valve cover bolts
pop rivet assortment/cheap small rivet puller
screwdriver with assorted bits
air pressure guage
What am I missing? What have you found that you needed and didn't have?
Regards,