The FAA now will allow airplane owners and operators to replace their vacuum-driven attitude indicators with new electronic devices without a vacuum-driven backup, as long as there's a backup power source, the agency said in October. The new policy applies to aircraft weighing less than 6,000 pounds. The FAA said electronic attitude indicators are more reliable and not prone to "insidious" gradual failures like their ancestors. The action "is part of the FAA's effort to increase the flexibility of improving aircraft safety quickly and efficiently with new technological advancements," the agency said in a Facebook post.
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