Quick update, as it has been a little while. As some wiser minds than mine predicted, the mechanics have taken rather longer than they had anticipated to get stuff put back together. Avionics, in particular, has been repeatedly delayed. I received a hand-to-heart oath that it would be done in a week, and that was three weeks ago. Thus, my poor plane still languishes under a layer of dust in a maintenance hangar, ever so slowly becoming more airplane shaped and, with luck, emerging buttterfly-like from her maintenance chrysalis after a 15-month incubation with shiny new capabilities.
There's a part of me that has some relief that I won't perhaps have to fly in ungentlemanly temperatures. Another part fears that continued maintenance delays (one doesn't rush an artist, especially when they hold your life in their hands) will mean that I'll suddenly have to contend with icing as a concern!
Regardless, I just wanted to let everyone know that I didn't crash in the mountains, living out my life as a hermit, futilely waving a piece of broken Cherokee at passing aircraft.
