Originally Posted by
HeliComparator
I'm assuming the floats have to be armed before the AFDS can operate? If the AFDS is from the battery then presumably the floats were not armed? Surely if you were going to be doing low and slow over water (trans down) then you would arm the floats as SOP?
You should be able to tell which circuit(s) the AFDS is on just by looking at the breaker panels. There will presumably be one for the battery-only bus and ones for the other buses. A good photo of the breaker panel should reveal whether there is one labelled "AFDS" on the battery-only panel.
I think we may be chasing down the wrong rabbit hole here and also grinding the coffee much too fine.
There is, from what I can find, a CB Labeled FLOATS 7.5 amps on BOTH the #1 Primary DC Bus and the Battery Bus. There is NOT any CB labeled AFDS on any Bus that I can find.
Somewhere I have a fold out poster from “Training Daze” at FSI that shows the actual CB panel but a quick “Op Frantic Search” did not find it.
