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which violates an FAR that sez > that you need to have enough for 30 minutes (?) operation in the event > of electrical system (e.g. charging system) failure. I always thought that as long as you stay VFR out of airspace that requiere to talk to someone on the radio, one can fly without. Does it mean that because we are having an electrical system, we are required to assure operation of such, or is it rather a good to have - my problem if I use it or not? Hartmut ----- Original Message ----- From: "James B. Brennan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ctech Tech" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [COUPERS-TECH] DEAD BATTERY START > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > After I had my Ercoupe jump started by a shop next to my hangar ($10) > and got going, I aborted the trip as the turbulence was nasty - I was > to go to another airport for a Wings lesson, which I concluded would > make no sense with the plane getting flopped about so. Ended up taking > the battery home and charging it with my old motorcycle battery charger > - does a nice slow charge that batteries like. > > Where is this going? Someone pointed out to me that doing this put me > in the air with a virtually dead battery which violates an FAR that sez > that you need to have enough for 30 minutes (?) operation in the event > of electrical system (e.g. charging system) failure. I was being hasty > and also figured the other airport was 45 min. away so I'd charge up > enough, but in hind sight, not an excellent idea with a 13 amp. > generator on a dead 35 AH battery (I had foolishly failed to turn off > the master the time before). > > Jim Brennan > > ============================================================================ == > To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > > ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
