OK, I'm not going to tell you how I did it, but I managed to leave the power on my EFIS over night, and drained the airplane's battery.....(me, the guy who says "who needs a "master nag", how could you ever leave with the EFIS powered up!".....well, I guess that you get so used to seeing the screens, you forget that they need to power off or something....).
So, after charging up the battery, I powered up the systems, and one of my GRT DU's gave me a message about corrupted software..."Please insert USB drive with software". No problem (frustrating, but no problem), I always carry a thumb drive with the software. After a few power cycles, it reloaded, and I was on my way...ALMOST. It, of course, was a fresh load, with none of my configurations stored! For those of you who have configured a GRT, you know that it takes a little fiddling to get everything talking - you only have to do it once, but it takes a couple hours. At least, you HOPE you only have to do it once!
Of course, my cheat sheet with the configs was at home, not in the airplane. Hunting and pecking for a few minutes got me nowhere. And then I remembered that I had saved the configuration to the thumb drive a couple months ago!
Put the drive back in the USB port, went to the "Setup, Display Unit, Save Config, RESTORE" spot, pushed the button, and I was winging my way with everything back up in a few minutes.
Lesson? Backups are not just for PC's! If you have a GRT Horizon or Sport and you ave it configured for your airplane, do yourself a favor and back up your config TODAY! It might be doing me a favor as well...I get quite a few emails and phone calls helping folks get their systems up, and I'd hate to get "repeat business"....
"Save Early, Save Often"
Paul
So, after charging up the battery, I powered up the systems, and one of my GRT DU's gave me a message about corrupted software..."Please insert USB drive with software". No problem (frustrating, but no problem), I always carry a thumb drive with the software. After a few power cycles, it reloaded, and I was on my way...ALMOST. It, of course, was a fresh load, with none of my configurations stored! For those of you who have configured a GRT, you know that it takes a little fiddling to get everything talking - you only have to do it once, but it takes a couple hours. At least, you HOPE you only have to do it once!
Of course, my cheat sheet with the configs was at home, not in the airplane. Hunting and pecking for a few minutes got me nowhere. And then I remembered that I had saved the configuration to the thumb drive a couple months ago!
Put the drive back in the USB port, went to the "Setup, Display Unit, Save Config, RESTORE" spot, pushed the button, and I was winging my way with everything back up in a few minutes.
Lesson? Backups are not just for PC's! If you have a GRT Horizon or Sport and you ave it configured for your airplane, do yourself a favor and back up your config TODAY! It might be doing me a favor as well...I get quite a few emails and phone calls helping folks get their systems up, and I'd hate to get "repeat business"....
"Save Early, Save Often"
Paul
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