I have to ask. Does anybody actually look at the emergency procedures in their POH? All Piper and Cessna POH's have a section in the emergency procedures manual that deals with cabin fires and all these procedures start with turning the master off.
To those who advocate other courses of action I am curious to know what makes you think you know better then the factory engineering test pilots that wrote the emergency procedures?
I would also add that both manufacturers and regulators have rethought the circuit breaker resetting procedures. The now virtually universal consensus is to never reset a circuit breaker unless the emergency checklist specifically calls for it and to never reset a circuit breaker twice.
For light aircraft I teach to never reset a circuit breaker in flight unless the electrical service it is protecting is essential for continued safe flight.
Last edited by Big Pistons Forever; 19th July 2012 at 00:40.