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Originally Posted by flipper35
I wasn't sure how far you fly the aircraft to get to the location they want pictures of.
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We have been as far as Corpus Christi, TX and Montana close to the Canadian border, Colorado and Georgia. When we flew the recent hurricane damage in Florida and the fire damage in California we flew out commercial and rented a local airplane. We fly a lot in Pennsylvania and that area. Primary we fly in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas. But we will fly anything and anywhere for money. Obviously that excludes no fly zones like Area 51 or the DC metro area, and some military training areas.
I just went to the electronic shop to pay the ransom on the flight computer going out. While we were there my business partner wanted to get the all the databases updated. They have to be updated every 28 days. While he was doing that one of the knobs that changes between screens crapped out. They have a guy there that can fix just that, but it is actually cheaper to send the entire display back to Garman and swap it for a factory refurbished unit. The repair guy said the knob uses a LED to reflect the position of the knob, and to fix it is super complex. He only knows about the repair process because the military gets to tell Garman, if you sell the government a product you HAVE to supply the parts that allow the government to repair the unit. He has done twice for the US government and they supplied the parts no one else can get except the manufacturer.
So our instruments broke down while at the instrument repair shop. At least we did not fly off in it and have it fail while in a critical location. And we did not have to schedule getting it back over there. Kinda like having a flat while at the tire shop.