I was stuck on a weird intermittent fault on a G1000 autopilot for three days. The fix was reseating a connector I'd already checked twice.

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Ugh, @blair990, that reminds me of the time I chased a flickering nav light for a week... turned out to be a tiny crack in the old bulb's base.

ray_burns6d ago

That G1000 autopilot is basically a flying computer, and computers are full of gremlins. Honestly, checking a connector twice and still having it be the problem just proves how random these faults can be. It sounds like you followed a solid process and still got bit by bad luck. Sometimes the fix is just that simple, even after you've ruled it out.

blair9906d ago

My old Cessna's alternator had a similar ghost, fixed by wiggling a perfectly clean ground.