The light twin pilots are generally better trained and rated than their single contemporaries - yet they die more often per mile flown. Could it be that sophisticated, often well educated pilots try to fly airplanes where they should set down quickly?

I have seen a number die of hypothermia, while alongside the boat as various rigs try and get them aboard. We have a proven method: first used in the Cal 46, using the dingy hoist motor and radar arch, now using the Davit crane on the Symbol 42. We keep a lifesling at the area of the gate of the aft portion of the sun deck.

Over the next several weeks, the same thing happened six more times; after 2-3 hours of running, vacuum would start to build from near 0 to 1, then 2 then 5 then 10, 15, (in of hg) and after about 20 minutes, the engine would die. It wasn't a hard blockage, because switching off the tank feed causes the vacuum to reach that level in less than a minute.

PPS: UPS units can be guilty of providing VERY ugly power as their battery backups die after a steady draw brought on by the loss of their 118 power feeds. OK Arild and Joe.... how did I do?? Shaun aboard Rana III

Hi Alex, Live by the nit, die by the nit. I read your posts, and re-read my Detroit Diesel service manual. What you call a "primary fuel filter", Detroit Diesel calls a "fuel strainer", and they do indeed call for 30 microns in it. For their "secondary", they call it a "fuel filter", and ask that you put a 10 micron element in it.

Any one ever use them in a "do or die" situation or > are then all bought as toys? Any advice for or against purchasing? > > I picked up a cheap Gen I unit from Harbor Freight - can't beat $89.00 to try > out a fantasy. It is a "Zenit" and seems to work acceptably. Appears to be > Russian military surplus (or a knockoff).

None of this carries over to Abyssinia but old habits die hard!!! Thanks for the responses. Eric Thoman Abyssinia www.seanet.com/~kimeric

In other words, if you live by the sword, you die by it. Become dependent on these fancy tricks and when they fail or contribute to the problem, then that's what gets you killed. There is a point of diminishing returns where the increasing complexity of the system does not contribute to increased safety.

The issue may not present itself until you die, or until some state decides you haven't paid them income tax, or any other number of ways. Talk with your attorney and get his advice before your widow/family gets to deal with the issue! I don't want to post my little primers about residency again, for fear of boring all the list old timers.

They seem to appear in both the spring and the fall, lasting about three or four weeks before the die off. According to Dr. John Capinera, Professor of entomology at the Univ. of Florida, "they have a longer gestation period than other insects and the eggs laid in April don't hatch till August."