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My my perch it indicated either an igorance or predisposition to disregard the FARs. You are very kind to conclude that it simply did not indicate any kind of disregard for
the FARs.

Asking any question implies ignorance - not knowing the answer. It also
implies a desire to find out the answer. If he had a predisposition to
disregard the FARs, he would have merely pulled the panel himself and
attacked the offending microswitch with a fork.

Jose
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Jose wrote:

My my perch it indicated either an igorance or predisposition to disregard the FARs. You are very kind to conclude that it simply did not indicate any kind of disregard for
the FARs.

Asking any question implies ignorance - not knowing the answer. It also
implies a desire to find out the answer. If he had a predisposition to
disregard the FARs, he would have merely pulled the panel himself and
attacked the offending microswitch with a fork.

I see it differently. Your assumption disregards possible damage to the unit by just going at it. He asked here because this place is anonymous. In reality, if he felt he was
in the clear he would have asked around in person at his airport.

He asked here because this place is anonymous.

I don't think you know why he asked.

As for anonymous, the internet is anything but anonymous.

If it were me, I would ask here because it is easy, asynchronous, and
one can get quite a bit of useful information. It is also
self-correcting inasmuch as bad advice is usually contradicted pretty
quickly (though good advice is also contradicted), and by reading a
bunch of replies one can get a good sense of whether the proposed course
is worth pursuing.

Jose
--
Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

: If it were me, I would ask here because it is easy, asynchronous, and
: one can get quite a bit of useful information. It is also
: self-correcting inasmuch as bad advice is usually contradicted pretty
: quickly (though good advice is also contradicted), and by reading a
: bunch of replies one can get a good sense of whether the proposed course
: is worth pursuing.

Exactly. In order to get good advice from researching the 'net (which
includes asking questions on usenet), one has to have a finely-tuned bull****
detector. This entire thread is a perfect example of why, when it comes to GA and the
FAA/FAR's:

#1: What's legal is not necessarily safe.
#2: What's safe is not necessarily legal.

... or more eloquently as a friend of mine puts it, "Hi, we're with the FAA
and we're not happy until you're not happy."

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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Jose wrote:

He asked here because this place is anonymous.

I don't think you know why he asked.

True, I don't know for certain, but I have a pretty good hunch.

As for anonymous, the internet is anything but anonymous.

At the level of this forum it effectively is quite anonymous.

Maybe someone should start an avionics maintenance forum. ;-)