Does your home jurisdiction require air brake endorsement?
Are there jurisdictions about the continent that allow people to drive air brake equipped vehicles without any type of training or license endorsement?
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Tom/Barb wrote:havasu wrote:
So just for fun and being totally honest, can you answer the following?
1. What are slack adjusters and what procedure should you follow to check them?
2. Do you have 1 air tank or 2?
3. How often should you drain your tanks?
4. At what pressure should the spring brakes apply
5. What pressure should cause the low pressure alarm to sound
6. What is the maximum air pressure allowed
7. How many seconds should it take to build operating pressure
8. What are the 2 tests for air leakage
9. What the are maximum leakage rates allowed
How many can you answer without Googling?
Who cares? you have your coach maintained by a professional and it works properly when you step on the pedal.
You do not need to know all the details to be safe. other wise a transport pilots would have to be aviation engineers to fly.
Actually, although Airline Pilots don't have to know how to rebuild a jet engine, they have to know a lot about the air craft systems including how a lot of those systems work and what the limitations of those systems are. For example they have to know a lot about the brakes and how to preflight inspect the brakes and what to look for.
