Originally Posted by
GlobalNav
In spite of common practice and years ago even part of design and approved procedures, there is a safety objective behind avoiding excessive cycling of circuit breakers. It weakens them over time and diminishes their protective capabilities. FAA requires switches and controls be used instead of CB’s for routine on/off purposes.
Yes. 40 odd years of tripping white area cb's certainly proved that point.
On ops with a.c. armed, tripping and resetting
certain cb's is about the only thing you can do to clear a fault without getting the a.c. downloaded...