If there were 25 million active GA pilots...

"Tom S." wrote in message
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You shut down both of them and wait for the smoke to clear. Then you
cautiously turn them on one at a time and see which one produces smoke.

If you are IMC you cannot turn both electrical systems off in an airplane
with no vacuum system.


Or your observe your panel status lights to determine which is having bus
problems, then shutdown the inop one.

What if there is just smoke but no panel status light change?



--
Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com

"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message
s.com...

"Tom S." wrote in message
...

You shut down both of them and wait for the smoke to clear. Then you
cautiously turn them on one at a time and see which one produces
smoke.

If you are IMC you cannot turn both electrical systems off in an airplane
with no vacuum system.


Or your observe your panel status lights to determine which is having
bus
problems, then shutdown the inop one.

What if there is just smoke but no panel status light change?

What if you shutdown both electrical systems and the smoke only increases?

"Tom S." wrote in message
...

What if you shutdown both electrical systems and the smoke only increases?

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

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

Airliners have fire-suppression systems which make this situation less
likely than a GA airplane.

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

--
Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com