Sunday, July 17, 2005

In America now!

An email from Bill Cox who is the ferry pilot. He went back to try again on July 16th...

David:

Crossing was relatively uneventful once we finally got some decent winds. Greenland was OK on the West Coast, not much fun on the East Coast. Gidthab was on the ground with fog, and I listened to three Groensfly (Greenland Air) airplanes circling over BGBW trying to figure out what to do next. Picked up some ice in the last two hours, but what else is new on the North Atlantic in summer.

Airplane is generally running very well. Right engine demands running electric fuel pump most of the time above 14,000 feet, not good, as what do you do if the pump fails. (Duh! Obviously descend, but what if you can't.)

I'm in Bangor and will be out of here in the morning. Not much reason to charge down to Waco on a Sunday, as there's no one to talk to until Monday. For that reason, I'm going to stay with a friend tomorrow night and continue on down to Waco on Monday, then try to get home Monday night or Tuesday morning.

Once again, I think you have the potential for a winner here. It's already a good airplane. Dumb me, I left the squawk list in the airplane. Not that many, a dozen or so, and some are very minor. I'll try to get it to you possibly tomorrow night so you can decide what you want the folks at Air Impressions to fix.

Since many of the squawks are avionics related, you might want to consider having them addressed by Robin Howard at Howard Aviation. He's a whiz at that stuff, and he knows the 421 very well. He does all of Tom's work.

I'll stay in touch by email.

Bill

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