I don’t need to fly when I’m tired

[DatDudeMIC]

So I’m in the bonanza on my way to San Diego. Upon reaching cruise at 10,000 feet I looked at my EGT gauge at it was still at 0. After clicking for about 5 minutes it hadn’t budged. Went into the maintenance hangar to see if it had failed. It hadn’t. Needless to say, I was cruising with full rich mixture. I’m starting to think I need to go to sleep instead of flying.


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[Jacques]

Will the maintenance hanger tell you if an instrument has failed while still in flight? I always understood that information to be hidden while in flight.


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[DatDudeMIC]

It did for me. On my my 1st flight, my artificial horizon failed. I went into the hangar and clicked inspect, then I clicked the instruments section and it came right up.


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[Jacques]

That’s probably my own fault for assuming, and never really trying to check what might be wrong while actually in flight!


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[Bruce66]

Interesting because in the Comanche I checked the hanger whilst in flight and it was red tinged with a message saying I could not look whilst in flight!

I had damage on if that makes a difference

[AKar]

Upon reaching cruise at 10,000 feet I looked at my EGT gauge at it was still at 0. After clicking for about 5 minutes it hadn’t budged. Went into the maintenance hangar to see if it had failed. It hadn’t. Needless to say, I was cruising with full rich mixture.

A related question, why on the Earth full rich at 10000 ft?

-Esa

[Jacques]

Probably why he knew he needed to get some sleep!


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[AKar]

Probably why he knew he needed to get some sleep!

Oh yes. I figure my reading comprehension would benefit from good night's worth of sleep as well!

-Esa

[MarcE]

could have been the lack of oxygen up there...