"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message
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"Tom S." wrote in message
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What if you shutdown both electrical systems and the smoke only
increases?

If it is a non-electrical fire that is a separate issue.

I know...I was just pulling your crank :~)


But by having only electric gyros it becomes much harder to deal with an
electrical fire.
....

I cannot imagine flying an electric-only airplane with no vacuum backup.

The real "best of both worlds" is a dual bus electrical system with a vacuum
for backup/redundancy.

I wonder how soon that arrangement might make it's way into the lower
echelon of GA aircraft now that miniaturization is becoming so prevalent.

Tom
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