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You Know You're a Diamond Pilot When ...
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Re: You Know You're a Diamond Pilot When ...
You've discovered the pile of your old stall warning plugs that got blown over to the airport fence ...
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Re: You Know You're a Diamond Pilot When ...
You've found that the lineman couldn't figure out how to refuel your DA20 because you left the canopy cover on ...
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Re: You Know You're a Diamond Pilot When ...
There are tiny little bulbs behind the little green plastic lens covers that indicate flap position. When one of those bulbs burns out, it is really easy to take off the plastic lens. There is almost no room on the side of the bulb to get any sort of grip to pull it out. It's maddeningly frustrating. I forgot the gauge of wire but if you strip some wire and slip the insulation over the bulb and pull, it comes right out. The bulb itself is a very inexpensive part.
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Re: You Know You're a Diamond Pilot When ...
By some unknown series of random occurrences I actually had (and have safely squirreled away) a pair of tweezers that work for this task.Paul wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 12:37 amThere are tiny little bulbs behind the little green plastic lens covers that indicate flap position. When one of those bulbs burns out, it is really easy to take off the plastic lens. There is almost no room on the side of the bulb to get any sort of grip to pull it out. It's maddeningly frustrating. I forgot the gauge of wire but if you strip some wire and slip the insulation over the bulb and pull, it comes right out. The bulb itself is a very inexpensive part.
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Re: You Know You're a Diamond Pilot When ...
She doesn't - but she keeps threatening to pluck mine. Hence the hiding of the tweezers in the hangar
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Re: You Know You're a Diamond Pilot When ...
You strip a couple of inches of a single piece of 12g solid copper wire, keeping the insulation you stripped off. You stick this into the hole with the bulb in it, and it fits perfectly over the bulb with just enough force to pull it back out. Just like magic!
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Re: You Know You're a Diamond Pilot When ...
You have a duplicate set of US and metric wrenches in your hangar and your garage.
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Re: You Know You're a Diamond Pilot When ...
You know you don't need a parachute to perform a safe off field landing thanks to the low stall speed. And you know you are flying one of the safest machines in general aviation.