Stolen Garmin GNS430... PSA
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Why do you think there aren't crackheads in the aviation business, or that only crackheads steal stuff?
sourdough44
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Where was the location of this theft? Airport?
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Well so far we have two theories who might have stole it, a crackhead and an out of work A&P. Any votes for a cheapass pilot who does not want to pay the local shop for the one they have?
Checkout_my_Six
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Allen is in Mid New Jersey.
bnt83
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Pretty sad when you need anti-temper seals on the radios in your airplane.
A guy might be able to verify they have the correct serial #s on a setup/status page for some radios. Others I'm sure would need to be pulled from racks.
A guy might be able to verify they have the correct serial #s on a setup/status page for some radios. Others I'm sure would need to be pulled from racks.
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I have been fearing the day when crooks and crack-heads realize that there is only a thin piece of plexi glass separating them from possibly of $50,000 loot in most airplanes.
And god forbid if they actually Google that they only need a small Allen wrench to pull a $10,000 530W out of the panel ...
And god forbid if they actually Google that they only need a small Allen wrench to pull a $10,000 530W out of the panel ...
bnt83
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I have been fearing the day when crooks and crack-heads realize that there is only a thin piece of plexi glass separating them from possibly of $50,000 loot in most airplanes.
And god forbid if they actually Google that they only need a small Allen wrench to pull a $10,000 530W out of the panel ...
More incentive to not have anything worth stealing. Kinda like road rage, drunks, distracted, illegals, theft, hail, discourages owning newer cars lol.
No, because you don't get one without paying for it first.
There is a complication on a lot of these though. What has been done is someone steals it from one plane, swaps it into another, and sells the second one. The serial number of the missing one isn't the serial number that is reported stolen.
JoeSelch
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Checkout_my_Six
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looks like someone stole Allen's wrench too.....
bnt83
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Why can't they build removable faces like car stereo?
KeithASanford
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Why do you think there aren't crackheads in the aviation business, or that only crackheads steal stuff?
Probably because the definition of "crackhead" has evolved. Legend has it, there are "crack" "crank" and "meth" versions of what society classifies as a functioning alcoholic.
FloridaPilot
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So you can buy another one for 10k 
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Cuz then we'd be tapping on the GPS display like we normally do with steam gauges.
See, in civilized society, it is called "the hex". But here, somebody came up with a different name. Maybe it was Allen?looks like someone stole Allen's wrench too.....
(actually, Wikipedia says that Allen was the name of the company that introduced the wrench in the US - so it's the same story when you go to Xerox a piece of paper or blow your nose into a Kleenex - no wonder every journalist calls a small airplane a Cessna
)We couldn't find the key to a CAP 172 once (some noggin' collected them all - don't ask); we tried some gov't issued filing cabinet keys, and one of them worked. Didn't try it in the ignition, though.
We did have a medieval "orange idiotic device" that connected through the yokes, and blocked the radio stack, throttle, and mixture; equipped with a padlock.
If you weren't familiar with it, you'd have to spend some time hack-sawing through either the padlock, or one of the "arms"
If you were familiar with it, it took two-three seconds to remove without the key. . .
We did have a medieval "orange idiotic device" that connected through the yokes, and blocked the radio stack, throttle, and mixture; equipped with a padlock.
If you weren't familiar with it, you'd have to spend some time hack-sawing through either the padlock, or one of the "arms"
If you were familiar with it, it took two-three seconds to remove without the key. . .
I would expect nothing less from the CAP......The "anti theft" device was probably built to their idiotic specs too..
I've known quite a few functioning junkies (heroin/opiate users) but have never met a truly functioning crackhead (rock/freebase cocaine) or tweeker (crank/ crystal meth) with the crackheads being the least functioning of all, but you still find them employed in all industries.
gms5002
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I have been fearing the day when crooks and crack-heads realize that there is only a thin piece of plexi glass separating them from possibly of $50,000 loot in most airplanes.
And god forbid if they actually Google that they only need a small Allen wrench to pull a $10,000 530W out of the panel ...
Don't worry, the airport security fence will keep them out
