Spotted a weird fix on a Garmin G1000 at Scottsdale Airport last Tuesday

I was down at KSDL helping a buddy with an annual when I noticed one of the King Airs had a cracked display bezel taped up with foil tape. Turns out the pilot ran out of spares and just wanted to keep the stray light out. Anyone else run into field hacks that actually hold up better than the OEM parts?

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jakeb2527d ago

Buddy of mine out of Prescott did the same thing on his Cessna 206. Caught a glare off the cracked MFD bezel one afternoon and decided to patch it with some high-temp silicone tape he had in the toolbox. Looked janky as hell but the stuff held for two years through Arizona summers and winter cold snaps. He only replaced it when he finally found the OEM part on backorder and had to cut the tape off with a knife. The tape never peeled or bubbled once, worked better than the factory plastic ever did.

vera_campbell27d ago

Did he ever get his tape endorsement added to his logbook? That kind of field approval sounds like it earned some FAA brownie points.