G1000 Inop Equipment

[ajstoner21]

For an airplane to be legal to fly, all installed equipment must be operational, or it has to be deactivated/removed and placarded.


With that said, in a Cessna 172SP with G1000, if you have an Alert for an Inop Carbon Monoxide detector, how do you deactivate/placard a carbon monoxide detector?

Maybe I don't fully understand that reg....

 

[Jim Logajan]

91.205(d) requires a bit more than that -- the item must be either removed or deactivated (which may require a log entry). Simply labeling it is not legally sufficient, even though that's what a lot of folks do.

I think you mean 91.213(d).

I found Advisory Circular 91-67, which addresses the subject in more detail than the regulations:

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_G...13C094A06437C5FA862569D900744D86?OpenDocument

"Deactivation means to make a piece of equipment or an instrument unusable to the pilot/crew by preventing its operation."

But scan the AC to get the full context.