By the time you read this, I’ll be getting my Debonair out of its annual inspection. It’s been a lengthy one, in part because of some items I had deferred from previous inspections and in part because the airplane was new to the shop doing the work. Basically, I decided it was time to catch up on a few wear-and-tear items that pop up with any kind of machine, from a Roomba vacuum cleaner to a personal airplane.
One squawk involved missing altitude information on a recent ADS-B Performance Monitor report I requested after a controller mentioned it wasn’t up to snuff. The shop presumed it was either a configuration error or a bad encoder. I’ll be interested in learning about the fix. It was time for brake pads, too, and I decided to replace what I’m pretty sure are the original brake rotors as a while-we’re-there-we-might-as-well thing.
