When you've been flying an individual homebuilt airplane as long as we have (22 years, to be exact), you encounter a lot of opportunities for improving on your product. Occasionally these "improvements" come because of malfunctioning equipment. That's certainly happened to me. Yet every now and then, you just want a little change. Either way, the retrofit process is an opportunity to get to know your machine a little better and possibly uncover issues you didn't even know you had. And, if you picked the right mod, you just may make your days flying more rewarding.
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