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Comment Re:The FAA is greatly to blame (Score 5, Informative) 191

The FAA uses non-FAA personal to do a huge amount of their work. Non FAA-employee "designated pilot examiners" give checkrides and issue pilot certificates, A&P-IA inspectors issue airworthiness certificates, private companies run airport towers and weather service. Everyone usually does their jobs under threat of losing their credentials if they fuck up. It's a system that actually works pretty well as long as everyone behaves themselves. Which they haven't.

Comment Re:Twelve volts (Score 1) 79

I don't think you actually read the specifications.

They require the 12 volt source to be regulated between 11.4 and 12.6 volts. The nominal charge voltage for a 12 volt lead-acid battery is 13.2-13.8 volts and discharging a 12 volt lead-acid battery below 12 volts is generally considered to shorten it's lifetime considerably.

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