This brings to mind a similar incident, many years ago. To shorten the story, I discovered that turning on the nav lights in a Piper Comanche dims the landing gear indicator lights. I was chatting with my mechanic this afternoon and he says that is common to many pipers (e.g. Arrows). This has impli...

Dimmer was the culprit. It's a mystery how it got clicked on in the last week . I guess it's possible to just brush up against it getting in or out of the plane.

Thanks all, I was expecting to have a big troubleshooting task ahead.

I did an IPC today. Luckily I was able to use a young guy that didn't require that I do all the stuff the way we did in the 70's. I had set up an IFR flight plan in Foreflight, pushed the iPhone button to file and he was OK with that and with using only EFB charts (plus the GNS units) for the flight...

That's interesting. There shouldn't be any ferrous metal in that part of the canopy. I put my CO detector/clock combo in that location, my compass is still on the glare shield. No matter where you place the compass, you will have to "swing" it. Steve I had the same thoughts. The only thing that com...

Checking the dimmer is worth doing, if only for elimination. With it completely off (i.e., it's broad daylight) they should be at full brightness.

It looks like the PC board for them is under the seats somewhere. Troubleshooting tomorrow.

Suddenly none of the 3 lights work, as of this morning. It's unlikely all 3 bulbs burned out simultaneously, so I figure the controlling module is dead. If this is the case, where the heck is it? Right behind/part of the flap switch?

Interesting coincidence, Steve. I actually had the same omission on my ELT sticker until just a few weeks ago

OK, too easy. Yep, that's it. The thing disappeared years ago when I still had the glare-shield compass in the plane and I never noticed. Nor have any of the numerous guys that have done annuals on the plane since. I swung the compass yesterday and created a new one. Items of interest: 1. This compa...

Herewith my instrument panel. It fails to fulfill a particular FAA regulation due to something missing and has been so for years. I corrected the deficiency today. Who'll get it first ?

When I read about the upgrade to 321.23 I thought this would allow WAAS guidance to 3 letter identifier airports, including the glide path? When I fly into my home airport of 22N on the RNAV 26, the glidepath goes away after the FAF. Is this normal or am I missing something? I, too, have LP approac...