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Old 13th Apr 2018, 02:00
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Originally Posted by Pudnucker
Accident waiting to happen. What a stupid system - why didn’t they employ a proper electrical engineer to design a sensible fail-safe system?
Keep in mind that what the pilots did was completely against procedures published in the POH.
You can’t engineer ‘stupid’ out of a system.
I worked for a flightschool where we ended up having 4 of these.
MX kept a set of batteries on a trickle charger and we averaged about 1 jumpstart per month as inevitably Master Switches are left on during preflight or postflight inspections.
Never a problem if you follow the instructions
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