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                           AeroElectric-List Digest Archive
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                     Total Messages Posted Sat 01/04/20: 2
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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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Time: 05:39:01 PM PST US
From: Bobby Paulk <bobbypaulk@comcast.net>
Subject: AeroElectric-List: 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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Time: 09:19:23 PM PST US
From: "Robert L. Nuckolls, III" <nuckolls.bob@aeroelectric.com>
Subject: Re: AeroElectric-List: 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??
>
>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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