AZtailwind
Well Known Member
There I was!
About 30 miles NE of bishop CA descending through 12,500 after crossing the White Mnts. In the 6A From So. Lake Tahoe to Jean NV- cruising at 170 MPH
It started as a faint rattling of some kind, thinking maybe baggage behind me is vibrating on something. Or the baggage bulkhead cover. I?m able to reach around in parts of the baggage but not really convinced it is inside- Then 10 minutes later or more, it?s getting a little louder Thinking it sounds like slapping of something outside or in the engine!! GPS says Bishop is close but on the west side of this 14,000 foot range.
Did you ever have your heart start up your throat in a slow motion? Heart rate gets a little louder. Throat gets thirsty - tell yourself to breath. Take a deep breath?
I?m on Nor Cal Center freq so someone will know where I?m at in my last track! But in this Valley Nor-Cal Center is not hearing me so well but the other experimental is.
The banging sound gets louder!
Engine indications look good, and when I reduce throttle the sound does not change so probably not a rod or spinner going. Buy this time one of those two things would have shown itself-in a bad way. At the same time I slow down as a precaution as if a control surface is not coming loose. I don?t really believe that, plenty of altitude, plenty of strait dirt roads down there but still ? this is such a remote Desert Valley. No Home Depot, no Nuttin. Beaty NV looks like the best place to set this thing down. Maybe the Com antenna had let go and is hanging on by the coax! But I would have no reception and Center can hear me most of the time with this radio check. Maybe the rear fiberglass fairing!
Now slowing to 110 Mph and it?s getting faint, something slapping, real faint now. GPS says 10 miles to Beaty?.keep the decent at pattern speed,
Landing and taxi into the Beaty tarmac a non event,
So it?s not the Com antenna, not the vertical fairing, and not a joke!
Ah Haa! I should have known!
What was this little loud problem??
About 30 miles NE of bishop CA descending through 12,500 after crossing the White Mnts. In the 6A From So. Lake Tahoe to Jean NV- cruising at 170 MPH
It started as a faint rattling of some kind, thinking maybe baggage behind me is vibrating on something. Or the baggage bulkhead cover. I?m able to reach around in parts of the baggage but not really convinced it is inside- Then 10 minutes later or more, it?s getting a little louder Thinking it sounds like slapping of something outside or in the engine!! GPS says Bishop is close but on the west side of this 14,000 foot range.
Did you ever have your heart start up your throat in a slow motion? Heart rate gets a little louder. Throat gets thirsty - tell yourself to breath. Take a deep breath?
I?m on Nor Cal Center freq so someone will know where I?m at in my last track! But in this Valley Nor-Cal Center is not hearing me so well but the other experimental is.
The banging sound gets louder!
Engine indications look good, and when I reduce throttle the sound does not change so probably not a rod or spinner going. Buy this time one of those two things would have shown itself-in a bad way. At the same time I slow down as a precaution as if a control surface is not coming loose. I don?t really believe that, plenty of altitude, plenty of strait dirt roads down there but still ? this is such a remote Desert Valley. No Home Depot, no Nuttin. Beaty NV looks like the best place to set this thing down. Maybe the Com antenna had let go and is hanging on by the coax! But I would have no reception and Center can hear me most of the time with this radio check. Maybe the rear fiberglass fairing!
Now slowing to 110 Mph and it?s getting faint, something slapping, real faint now. GPS says 10 miles to Beaty?.keep the decent at pattern speed,
Landing and taxi into the Beaty tarmac a non event,
So it?s not the Com antenna, not the vertical fairing, and not a joke!
Ah Haa! I should have known!
What was this little loud problem??