I would like to say it's less that I have a lack of confidence in restart
but rather I have high confidence, even certainty that all machines will at
some point fail to fullfill their intended function. Maintenance can, but
obviously does not always avoid the failure(s).
"What can go wrong will..."
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Life is full or cost / benefit decisions. We either accept the cost /
consequences of what we're doing or we do something different. At some
point your concern over what will happen will outweigh the pleasure you
get from doing it and you'll quit that activity.
I'm quite familiar with equipment failure. I worked on office equipment
, some machines running up to a million copies a month, for Xerox for 33
years taking service calls on failed equipment every day. Failure on a
copy machine is quite different that a failure of consequence on my KR.
I'm lucky so far in that the only failure of consequences on my KR was
nearly 800 hours ago in early testing. I had planned for a possible
failure in that system , designed and installed backup, and the rest is
history.
Not sure what action I'd consider if I were flying a Lake Amphibian.
Either run with continuous electric backup or install a humongous red
light on the panel that when you lost fuel pump pressure it would
illuminate and startle you into turning on the electric backup. I guess
that second option would not be legal on a "factory certified
airplane". 😁
Go fly - have fun - we're all living on borrowed time...........
Larry Flesner
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