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echristley(at)nc.rr.com
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Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject: D.A.R question about fuse access

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 Ernest, you are definitely a geek. Why not try an electric engine?

   

-Weight. 
	


-Power availability. 

-Range.



Technology is improving, but it isn't there.....yet.



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nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:53 am Post subject: D.A.R question about fuse access

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The nice thing about having internal batteries within the EFIS is that

nothing changes while you scurry to either change the fuse or land and

repair - even for the AP. If I couldn't isolate the problem by replacing

the fuse - I'd just land. Kind-o-like the ole' circuit breaker theory -

if it blows once you reset it. If it blows twice, you leave it.


	


   But what is the likelihood that replacing a properly sized,

   popped fuse will restore any system to functionality? If

   it's anticipated that the wing leveler's services will ever

   be critical to comfortable termination of flight, then

   is not as essential as radio navigation or cockpit lighting?



   Perhaps dual wing levelers are in order?  I'd bet that a BIG

   chunk of the accidents due to poor pilot visibility and/or

   workload distractions for single-pilot IFR would have been

   averted electrons had the stick.  I'll suggest that most

   IFR capable airframes would be better outfitted for ventures

   into poor visibility if there were NO displays on the panel

   and dual, heading-slaved wing levelers installed. The wing

   levelers are probably lighter and more reliable than a suite

   of panel mounted gyros and more capable than pilot's trying

   to manage an airplane interleaved with other distractions/

   duties in the cockpit . . . including the distraction of

   fiddling with fuses -OR- breakers.

        Bob . . .



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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:09 pm Post subject: D.A.R question about fuse access

Good Evening Bob,

  

 I agree with your evaluation, but back when Mooney tried it, most pilots  didn't care for it. You would regularly find the interrupt button taped down  thus deactivating the system. I feel certain that some method could be made to  work and still be acceptable to the average pilot, but no one has, as yet,  figured out that method.

  

 Had JFK jr just let his autopilot fly his airplane, we would probably have  a light plane pilot high in our government hierarchy by now.

  

 'Tis a quandary indeed!

  

 Happy Skies,

  

 Old Bob

 AKA

 Bob Siegfried

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 Stearman N3977A

  

  In a message dated 7/19/2009 12:53:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelectric.com writes:

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		  Perhaps    dual wing levelers are in order?  I'd bet that a BIG

      chunk of the accidents due to poor pilot visibility and/or

      workload distractions for single-pilot IFR would have been

      averted electrons had the stick.  I'll suggest that most

      IFR capable airframes would be better outfitted for ventures

      into poor visibility if there were NO displays on the panel

      and dual, heading-slaved wing levelers installed. The wing

      levelers are probably lighter and more reliable than a suite

      of panel mounted gyros and more capable than pilot's trying

   to    manage an airplane interleaved with other distractions/

   duties    in the cockpit . . . including the distraction of

   fiddling    with fuses -OR- breakers.



	


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