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Old 10-14-2016, 12:37 PM   #3
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You can usually smell things or see smoke long before the detectors go off.

The minute a pan starts smoking in the galley doesn't mean the detectors go off at that instant.

Asleep...all bets off...especially depending on sleeping quarters.

I once had a 14 ga wire brown about an inch long...just browned....it was to the helicopter landing gear and it caused so much smoke I lost sight of the copilot just 4 feet away. Amazing how much smoke us produced in such a short amount of time and so little oxidation of the fuel.
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