AD/GENERAL/39 Amdt 3 - Generator System Warning Placard - Installation (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (Civil Aviation Regulations 1998), PART 39 - 105 CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

Aircraft - General

AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE

For the reasons set out in the background section, the CASA delegate whose signature appears below revokes Airworthiness Directive (AD) AD/GENERAL/39 Amdt 2 and issues the following AD under subregulation 39.1 (1) of CAR 1998. The AD requires that the action set out in the requirement section (being action that the delegate considers necessary to correct the unsafe condition) be taken in relation to the aircraft or aeronautical product mentioned in the applicability section: (a) in the circumstances mentioned in the requirement section; and (b) in accordance with the instructions set out in the requirement section; and (c) at the time mentioned in the compliance section.

AD/GENERAL/39 Amdt 3

Generator System Warning Placard - Installation

9/2000

DM

Applicability: All aircraft fitted with generators which require a separate power supply for initial excitation (i.e. most types of alternator/rectifiers or generators with separately excited regulators including systems with combined generator/battery switches). Generators that do not supply power to a general electrical system (e.g. de-icer generators) are exempt from this requirement.

Requirement: 1. In multi-engine aircraft, install a placard near the generator switches advising the pilot not to turn off the generators in flight except in an emergency.

2. Deleted.

Note 1: FAA FAR 23.1541 and AC 20.40 refer.

Note 2: Aircraft certified by the FAA require installation of a similar placard, vide AC 20.40. Retention of that placard is required separate to this Directive.