Test Flights

[Marty Barnes / TWVA-KLAX]

After troubleshooting some equipment issues, needed to run some test flights that had been failing before.
Taxi out at KDFW bound for KBOS;


A shame the El-Ten didn't survive and evolve to still be around today:


Push Back at KBOS early morning to KORD:


For those of you that may use externally powered USB hubs ... be wary of them.  My 'smoking gun' turned out to be this device, which may have been compromised by some pretty severe electrical storms that have passed thru since Christmas.  Problem symptoms were: controllers quit working, system clock not holding correct time, more than the  occasional blue screens, and the every popular .. "this program has stopped working and needs to be closed".