I was barely out of the starting gate on Tuesday morning, only about 160 nm from Mojave when '98C swallowed a valve, punching two holes in the piston. To make a long story short, I landed safely on unattended Desert Center (L64) airport, and with the help of several very good friends from the 170 Association and the Tehachapi pilots group, got the debris cleaned out of the engine and a spare cylinder installed yesterday. (Moral: don;t leave home without a well-charged cell phone!)cessna170bdriver wrote:
I get this show on the road about 6am tomorrow. I don't yet have the technology to take the internet with me , so I'll be offline for a couple of weeks. Some of you I'll be seeing soon; for the rest, we'll let you know how it went when we return.
Miles
Because the engine has over 1700 hours total time I just couldn't see risking another problem even further from home, so '98C is now safely back in her hangar in one piece, and I have a ticket on a Friday night red-eye into Detroit.
Miles
PS: I guess I need to change my avatar now, eh?