claycookiemonster
Well Known Member
I started another thread in the General Discussion about Red Beacons, and where they might, or might not be mounted. In the course of that discussion, it was mentioned that if something was called a "beacon" you were required to have it operational, but somehow, if it was considered simply an indication of whether the Master was on, then it didn't matter whether it worked or not. I may have misunderstood what was being said, so please edu-macate me if I got that wrong.
In my previous airline life, we had an MEL, or Minimum Equipment List which listed various combinations of equipment which could be inop, and compensations that might have to be made sometimes. For example, the main engine generator could be INOP, but we'd run the APU in flight and could legally substitute that generator, and all was well.
Do we have the same capability here? Suppose I install two red beacons. Can I write somewhere in my operating limitations that only one needs to be operational for flight? If I have two alternators, an I grounded if one is inop, but the other is operational? Can I simply placard the beacon as "Battery On Indicator" and dodge the inop legality?
How does this work?
In my previous airline life, we had an MEL, or Minimum Equipment List which listed various combinations of equipment which could be inop, and compensations that might have to be made sometimes. For example, the main engine generator could be INOP, but we'd run the APU in flight and could legally substitute that generator, and all was well.
Do we have the same capability here? Suppose I install two red beacons. Can I write somewhere in my operating limitations that only one needs to be operational for flight? If I have two alternators, an I grounded if one is inop, but the other is operational? Can I simply placard the beacon as "Battery On Indicator" and dodge the inop legality?
How does this work?