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You don't do a mag check on things that are not
mags . . . If you've got a coil misbehaving
the engine will let you know about it without
any sort of preflight check.

Bob . . . ...

I didn't ask for "standard voltages". I wrote "standard terms". That is, standard "terminology" to describe a type of system.

You have some manufacturers calling it a ...

It's probably too much to ask for standard terms to be applied to electrical systems after all these decades. Wink

12V. 14V. Tom"ay"ta. Tom"ah"ta.

The batteries are nominal ...

Well Bob, you need to write to Boeing about addressing those issues and their system design or poorly conceived procedures because they are direct from the Boeing FCOM. Best of luck with that!

The ...

Visual inspection any circuit protective device offers no assurance whatsoever of any system's operational integrity.Bob . . .
I recall at least one occasion in particular where the failure to visual ...

Same in our airline. There are good reasons for not resetting tripped breakers, eg., causing the production of smoke when before there was none. FWIW in the never-ending "fuses versus breakers&qu ...

Totally concur with the comment about ADs. An Airworthiness Directive can be issued on pretty much anything pertaining to safety of flight, whether it's "certified" equipment or not. That's ...

Ah thanks Mike. I could've sworn I looked at every schematic in the AEC library but must've missed it.

Yes Bob, that's the exact reason I want a different symbol for it. I have mainly conventional ...

OK, I give in. I've looked everywhere for a schematic symbol for a switch-breaker. I have every type of switch known to humankind, and standard circuit breakers, but not a switch-breaker.

Any clues ...

FYI, here in Australia a couple of days ago a young woman was electrocuted and killed by a dodgy knock-off phone charger.

She was talking on the phone plugged into the charger while wearing headpho ...

The fact that the pilot was not the builder should not be used as an excuse for anything at all. I haven't built any of the aircraft I've flown during 30 years of professional (and recreational at oth ...

Suggest you purge the term "speed brake" from your
language used to talk about this system. It's
a spoiler system that kills lift . . . designed to
INCRASE rate of descent w ...

Only a few days ago the AAIB released this special report, which may be the source of some of the news reports.

It seems that they do indeed hold the ELT as prime suspect. The aircraft was unpowere ...

I have to sympathise with Bob's views here.

Lithium-chemistry based batteries hold a lot of promise for aircraft power sources, but there are clearly issues to be resolved, not least of which is th ...

Roger that! Take care, good luck, and fond farewell.

Mark Bitterlich

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Please don't patronise me, Mark. I was responding to multiple political rants which suddenly invoked all sorts o ...

Oh great.

I thought McCarthyism died out decades ago. Looks like it is being revived right here on the Yak List. Surprised it hasn't yet descended into talk of forged birth certificates.

Probabl ...

OK, as an airline pilot I now know not to fly Mexicana. Looking at the radar picture, the visual picture out the front, and the reported 800m vis (exactly on the minima for a Cat 1 ILS) I don't know a ...

I just find this whole "don't dare turn it on before the engine is started" argument a little crazy.

Those who have flown the B767 and similar vintage big metal things will be familiar wi ...

WRT the "right" to bear arms, I think the meaning of "well regulated militia" has been somewhat lost in translation over the intervening 200+ years. But most people apparently pref ...

Mike,
Extremely low risk is a relative term.

I don't know how you have reached that conclusion but I don't think its true.
I reached that conclusion because although there may have been RVs hit ...