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To all who wrote about the continuing problems with their Microsystem

equipment. Ain't it just too much fun being the Qualification Test

Lab for a company? And on your nickel, too! Over here in the side of

the business where toilet seats are said to cost $600, a system is at

least completely qualified by rigorous testing to meet it's specified

requirements before it goes on an airplane. That way, the bugs are

banished once, up front, instead over and over again on each new

installation. (For the toilet seats, let's not go there)!

It should be that way for us too, but too often a new gizmo is just

too "neat" to pass up and guess who pays the price? A real problem

in a situation like we've been reading on the LML is that the

company may never get their act completely together and disappear,

guess who's the stuckee. Happens all the time, and more often than

it should, in the homebuilt arena.

Seriously, Marv is right about the dangers of putting all one's

eggs in the one basket (even if they were thoroughly tested and

proven eggs) and how unlikely it is for a lot of independent systems

failing at the same time. If you put yourself in the position to lose

one or more critical functions due to a single-point-failure, that's

a bad thing.

Bottom line: Do you want to fly or do you want to constantly be

testing something? Your choice.



Dan Schaefer

N235SP





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