91.213 - Inoperative Instruments and Equipment


This is the violation. Equipment was broken, not simply inoperative. The equipment that the POH clearly states to use during takeoff and landing. The equipment the POH states to use when making an emergency landing.

All instruments worked fine. The entire electrical system malfunctioned.

Sure...if you were the PIC, of course you will argue that even with all of the broken and malfunctioning installed equipment, you thought the aircraft was safe to fly.
Even a jury of idiots will not buy that. And neither will the FAA attorneys.

Which brings us right back to 91.13.