About this episode

This episode discusses the issue of a landing gear relay breaker popping and the investigation that led to discovering a chafed wire.

(If you’re in a hurry, scroll down to see the tiny little chafed wire that caused this whole conundrum.) Now here’s the story… This landing gear relay breaker had been popping intermittently: It came time for annual inspection and we decided to replace the breaker with a new one, in order to rule out a […]

Topics covered

• aviation maintenance
• Bonanza aircraft
• gear relay
• annual inspection
• electrical issues

Keywords

• landing gear
• relay breaker
• annual inspection
• chafed wire
• intermittent issues

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Bonanza aircraft

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