Things I bet you didn't know

[Brian Abraham]

From the latest comic............err, Flight Safety Mag - total electrical failure in a PA-28-235 around Geraldton way.

My training kicked in, and I tuned the transponder to 7600 in the hope that it would work, so that any other transponder equipped aircraft would be alerted that there was an aircraft in the area without communication.

.....this Cherokee was not fitted with an alternator switch, only a master switch. Because the engine was still running, it seemed most sensible not to recycle the master switch for fear of the engine stopping.

.....if I had recycled the master switch, the engine would still have run, because the key on a separate circuit controls the mags.

Reminds me of the time where they deduced the reason for an engine failure in flight was a flat battery.

[Atlas Shrugged]

it seemed most sensible not to recycle the master switch for fear of the engine stopping.

Rubbish! Since when does the master switch shut down the engine in a Warrior, albeit a 235 Dakota?....and. how can a flat battery be the sole cause of a fuel driven piston engine failing?

[Sunfish]

If the alternator drops offline, the POH emergency procedures says to switch alternator off, wait and switch on again.

[Skynews]

Guys, I think this guy was completely lacking basic system knowledge.

Turned hisntransponder to 7600 hoping it would work and that any other transponder equipped aircraft would know he had a radio failure, hahahahah

Don't touch that RED switch, the engine might stop!

I will have to find this magazine and have a read and laugh.

[Macchi 408]

It really worries me knowing I share the same airspace with people like this.

[Jabawocky]

This has to be a wind up...........surely???

[Ultralights]

after some of the stories i have heard recently im surprised he even knew what 7600 was for...

[Arnold E]

Well, as it can be seen, all of us people involved in aviation are not gods after all.

Having said that though, this is BAK.

[DropYourSocks]

Poor form, should have had a field picked out just incase... which issue was this?

[Deaf]

How long ago did the gem of information arrive? Just been through the bin and it hasn't arrived since last Friday - would be still in the plastic.

[propblast]

it seemed most sensible not to recycle the master switch for fear of the engine stopping.

Thats twice in two different stories I've heard that now. The other was in a Cessna. And here I was thinking that that is why aircraft have magneto's.

[Arnold E]

And here I was thinking that that is why aircraft have magneto's.

Not all aircraft these days have magnetos, Mine doesn't.

[High 6]

And of course if he had gotten lost he could always do a 360 and return back to where he came from.......

[glekichi]

I once had a fellow instructor tell me that the brakes on all c152s are so weak that there was no way you could ever get them to lock on wet grass. Needless to say he was ripping up grass runways and didn't have a clue.

Better still had a CFI tell me he always wound the qnh so that radar couldnt tell he was doing low flying.

[Pinky the pilot]

Anyone reckon we could persuade Mac Job to come back?

the latest comic

Right first time Brian.

[Brian Abraham]

According to the register he does exist so should you hear VH POH on the air, well...............

[Capn Bloggs]

It really worries me knowing I share the same airspace with people like this.

It worries me that the editing standard for the regulator's top/only safety magazine is so appalling. Didn't anybody who knows anything basic about aviation proof-read that?

[Dangly Bits]

I would hazard a guess that no one inside the regulator WANTS to proof read it. Anyone know what the Editor did before being the FSA Edtior?

[Wally Mk2]

The fact that this guy has little BAK is only one thing but remember this guy like all the rest of us was taught by an instructor, there's the real worry!

'jaba' if it is a windup then we have a nutter on the loose out there besides us buddy
As for this safety article reaching print? Well a LOT of the print media is a joke!



Wmk2

[Old Akro]

The pilot may have been inexperienced and ignorant. But what about Flight Safety Magazine's editor? Was she out to lunch? This is another significant failure from a magazine that is supposed to be providing aviation safety education, not something modeled on Women's Day with a different wrapper.

What was that award that the magazine got?

It would be funny if our user-pays system wan't funding it. Will there ever be any accountability for CASA's spending of OUR money?