Larry, you are certainly one of the lucky ones in the KR crowd, and even in the entire experimental world in general! I like your thoughts that we are all "living on borrowed time", so we should have fun flying and enjoy life as much as we can before the time comes for returning our borrowed times to the Lord...!
I fully agree that in my view, life isn't about how long we are in the repetitive mode of doing the same thing day in and day out without excitement or having nothing worth remembering, and honestly life is truly remembered and celebrated only with something stands out of the ordinary - for better or worse!! BTW, I am a bit curious about your only failure and the consequences nearly 800 hour ago of your KR2 during the early flight test? Kind regards, Dr. Hsu On Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 9:23 PM Flesner <fles...@frontier.com> wrote: > > > 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..." > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 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 > > ________________________________ > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -Change list delivery options at > https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board > -Search recent KRnet Archives at > https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ > -Search <https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/-Search> > John Bouyea's decades of archive at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
