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