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Vaccuum Pump and attitude indicator gyro failure -- Partial panel airplane C172

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Uploaded by on Apr 24, 2010

On a long cross country flight, my vaccuum pump failed in VFR conditions. The standby electric pump also failed, giving me the false indication that it was a vaccuum gauge failure and not a pump failure. From the time the light came on and the vaccuum gauge indicated 0, I had about five minutes until I lost the attitude indicator. This could have potentially been very bad in turbulent IMC.

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  • How come the DG appears unaffected? Or does it just stay wherever it is when you lose suction?

  • @SoarBird134 I'm no expert on this, but I'm guessing it stayed where it was like they tend to do when you turn off the engine. I've known them to lose heading in turbulence and to spin in steep turns. Also, I was maintaining my heading while I filmed this video.

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  • Glad you are ok man!

  • That's why you have 5 other gauges there.

  • Ohhhh, that's ugly.

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