Spectator said..
Now, the only flying time I've got is 18 hours in a Piper Cherokee so I 'aint no pilot by any means !!
So....
You're on the ground, aircraft on jacks, and you say "Let's reset this breaker and see what happens.....FIRE ?.....Where ?.....SHIT !!, quick, hit the extinguishers and get out and call the fire service"
Now transpose that sequence to 35,000 feet with a cabin full of passengers !! The last bit would now read .... "FIRE ?.....Where ?.....SHIT !!, quick, hit the extinguishers and get out and call the fire service.....OH !!!.....BOLLOCKS...how high did you say ? !!!"
The next point is risk and policy for resetting a breaker in the air. A breaker normally trips for a reason (unless it is manually pulled - accidentally or intentionally), so resetting it does present a potential fire risk which is not desirable when you are in the air. On the ground it becomes an entirely different consideration - push the breaker and see what happens.
So....
You're on the ground, aircraft on jacks, and you say "Let's reset this breaker and see what happens.....FIRE ?.....Where ?.....SHIT !!, quick, hit the extinguishers and get out and call the fire service"
Now transpose that sequence to 35,000 feet with a cabin full of passengers !! The last bit would now read .... "FIRE ?.....Where ?.....SHIT !!, quick, hit the extinguishers and get out and call the fire service.....OH !!!.....BOLLOCKS...how high did you say ? !!!"
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