Saturday, April 30, 2022

Open The Hangar Bay Door HAL

So this morning I was set for a nice solo flight to Jackson.

Just me and the plane and a cross-country for breakfast with a couple practice instrument approaches done VFR (and since not hooded  and no safety pilot they would not have been logged as approaches). Just a relaxing VFR trip.

It was not to be,

Got to the airport, got in the Hangar, did an initial walk around, went to open the Hangar door and:


Yep, a whole lot of nothing.  The Hangar motor did not turn.  After over 20 tries there was one moment with a kiss of power but it stil wouldn't open.  None of the breakers in the hangar were tripped, but I tried resettign them anyways. Nada.

Well, that didn't work out too well.  I called ouR head of maintenance for the club and got a call back from him.  The breakers - they do nothing,  The hangar door electric feed is controlled by the airport authority on a separate breaker for which we don't have access.  Could be the entire row is out, could be our motor, could be a limited switch (per Mr. B), who knows.

So, no flying for me today.

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