Dry spell

 When our trip to Jhb was cancelled, we turned back and Louis and I in his Sling JAL did a consolatory flight to and touch-and-go at Pietermaritzburg instead from his home base at Cato Ridge
 

This is a nearby airfield we have been looking at with a view to renovating it and possibly building a hangar with the owner's permission to base our 2 Slings at, away from the coastal air.

It's been a bit of a dry spell. ZDL is up at The Airplane Factory in Tedderfield. As indicated in earlier posts, we have had an unresolved electrical fault which mysteriously gobbles up our power and blows the regulator which has been fixed twice. We asked the factory to give the electrics a thorough checking over and after investigating everything for a week, it has been decided to rewire the plane. It may also have something to do with the MGL Avioguard we had fitted after the last failure. It is an electronic device intended to ensure that smoothed power is supplied to the sensitive avionics at all times, even if there is a dip or surge in the current. The wiring diagram for this new product from MGL seems to have caused some difficulties and had to be re-checked with MGL. Feels like we are being guineapigs here.

The Airplane Factory have been marvelous and are leaving no stone unturned in getting the problems sorted out and a decision was taken to disconnect everything and re-wire the plane from scratch using the most-up-to-date wiring harnesses developed by the factory.

In the meantime I am in Durban and the plane has been in Johannesburg for 3 weeks now. We were on our way to fetch the plane on Wednesday and had to turn back when the factory phoned to say that ZDL was not going to be ready. Looking forward to getting back in the air next week.