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1. 05:39 PM - Master switch alarm (Bobby Paulk)
2. 09:19 PM - Re: Interesting King Air Complete Electrical Failure (Robert L. Nuckolls, III)
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| Subject: | Master switch alarm |
As a forgetful ole geezer I leave the high intensity strobes on when out to a
fly-in or the $100 hamburger and turn them off with the Master switch. You won't
walk away from your plane without seeing them. You can turn them off before
the next start.
Back at home port I turn them off with the panel switch.
Bobby
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| Subject: | Re: Interesting King Air Complete Electrical Failure |
>6.5 minutes for total flight duration; generator loss to total
>battery failure and *then* fly to the next airport??
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>Charlie
Yeah . . . there's a LOT of things we'd like
to know not the least of which is a time-line
from wheels-up to wheels-on-the-ground.
As I've illustrated in several paragraph-by-paragraph
reviews, (of "dark-n-stormy-night" stories
in the popular journals) these stories offer
no useful information/advice to the reader/pilot
who eagerly digests the narrative with the hope
of propping up their own decisions in a similar
situation.
I'll suggest they do more harm than good.
If there's a point to be made from
virtually ALL of the past century of electrical
system hangar-tales, it's NOT to make mental/mechanical
preparations for dealing with the same issue . . .
it's all about making sure it can't happen in
YOUR airplane.
The owner/pilot that understands their electrical
system (especially those who configured and crafted
it) would for the most part never suffer the
indignities experienced by these authors in the
first place!
Instead of worrying about it, fix it.
Bob . . .
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