<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1735288, March 2020

Light sport aircraft instructor reported executing an uneventful diversion due to a total electrical failure during a training flight.

Attributes
ACN	1735288
Time
Date	202003
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	HQZ.Airport
State Reference	TX
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Light Sport Aircraft
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Descent
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	Electrical Power
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying Instructor
Qualification	Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 136 Flight Crew Total 400
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical

Narrative:

Called hqz tower at 6 miles out for inbound full stop taxi back. Hqz tower replies report 2 mile right base runway 18. Around 2.5 miles we are about to call and report our position. All electronics go out - no radio; transponder; flaps; etc. Only screen that worked was EFIS 1 and 2 which ran on batteries. I instructed student to keep flying while I pull out the poh and run an emergency checklist for electrical failure. Checklist doesn't work. I take controls and exit the airspace. We divert to ZZZ. Land on the ground; and immediately call hqz tower to let them know what happened; where we are; and that we are a-okay.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Light Sport Aircraft Instructor reported executing an uneventful diversion due to a total electrical failure during a training flight.

Narrative: Called HQZ Tower at 6 miles out for inbound full stop taxi back. HQZ Tower replies report 2 mile right base Runway 18. Around 2.5 miles we are about to call and report our position. All electronics go out - no radio; transponder; flaps; etc. Only screen that worked was EFIS 1 and 2 which ran on batteries. I instructed student to keep flying while I pull out the POH and run an emergency checklist for electrical failure. Checklist doesn't work. I take controls and exit the airspace. We divert to ZZZ. Land on the ground; and immediately call HQZ tower to let them know what happened; where we are; and that we are A-Okay.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.