# SDR 2023FA0000026

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: January 10, 2023
- Submitted: January 12, 2023
- Operation: General aviation
- Aircraft: [N393PJ](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N393PJ), registered now
- Make and model: Cessna 501
- Registry model: [Cessna 501](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-501) (OpenAirDocs)
- Aircraft serial: 5010303
- Aircraft time: 892 hours, 7,662 cycles
- System (JASC): [3422 · Directional Gyro and Indicating System](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/3422)
- Part: Gyro
- Part number: 40205773
- Part serial: 81052175
- Condition: Erratic
- Location: Hsi
- Part time: 8,792 hours, 7,762 cycles
- Stage of operation: CL
- How discovered: O
- Nature of condition: I
- Precautionary procedure: A
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/2023FA0000026

## Discrepancy

SHORTLY AFTER TAKE OFF FROM PWA .DURING CLIMB OUT THE CREW NOTICED THAT THE PILOTS HSI WOULD NOT ERECT AND DEICIDED TO TO RETURN TO PWA TO HAVE MAINTENANCE . AFTER MAINTENANCE ARRIVED IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE HSI HAD FAUILED

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