{"id":81,"date":"2005-05-09T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2005-05-09T08:32:25","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T15:32:25","slug":"expensive-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Expensive Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worked on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8ballfc.org\">flying club<\/a> airplane this weekend.  Specifically, the club <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8ballfc.org\/n2257e.htm\">Cessna 172<\/a>.  It&#8217;s been in a hangar getting new paint, new glass, and a new interior (all to the tune of about $14,000) so it will be<del datetime=\"2005-05-09T08:31:4707:00\"> like a new airplane<\/del> really nice.<\/p>\n<p>As the maintenance officer, I carry a lot of daily responsibility for the club &#8211; fielding questions about the planes, handling communication about fixes and priorities to our mechanic, authorizing purchases, etc.  This was a whole different ballgame.  The organization required to get a project this big done by effectively two guys is massive.  This weekend was the end &#8211; with one exception.<\/p>\n<p>The plane was completely done, including the super-cool new vent canjs and sun visors.  It was completely reassembled and cleaned up.  We rolled it out to fire it up and take it around for a test flight.  No dice.  battery dead.  After getting jump starts, trickle charging the battery, and even getting it running for 15 minutes &#8211; we couldn&#8217;t get tthe battery to hold a  charge.  Needed a new one.  How much?  For what is roughly equivalent to a slightly-more-powerful car battery?  How about<a href=\"http:\/\/store.yahoo.com\/stylespilotshop\/g-243.html\"> $225<\/a>?  For a BATTERY.  Good GOD.<\/p>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s Tuesday to get it running again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worked on the flying club airplane this weekend. Specifically, the club Cessna 172. It&#8217;s been in a hangar getting new paint, new glass, and a new interior (all to the tune of about $14,000) so it will be like a new airplane really nice. As the maintenance officer, I carry a lot of daily responsibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}