Hi Gary,
Your idea about the extra switches is a good one and maybe I should do that. I suppose an unintended consequence of doing it, however, would be that sometime I will be taking a passenger for a ride and they will accidentally bump the switches off in the back seat when I'm on short final. haha Always some unintended consequence of every good idea.
Jim
----- Original Message -----From: Gary OrpeSent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 1:48 PMSubject: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was Transponders now Dual Controls
Jim,The engine switches can be duplicated in the rear very easily, since all they have to do is go to ground. Like Quicksilver, they can even be located on tubing somewhere. Just parallel the mag wiring from the other switches and use a local frame ground where the other switches are located. They will both have to be OFF to run the engine as either one set or the other or both can kill the engine. Hope that makes some sense.On your other question about instruction. I started before SP rule was in effect, in 2004. There were no craft and no one could act as DPE at that time. During my training in the 172 my wife slipped and broke her leg badly. She was bed ridden and that stopped my training for a good six months. But having time logged under instruction already, I continued training in the 172 with regular CFI's. They wouldn't even do Rec without a lot of help on my side and 61.101 to back me up. They still did under the hood and things like that and wasted several hours time with VOR nav and the like. About this time I was elated to find the first bunch of DPE's were being trained, and Bob Comperini was in the bunch. He is close to me here and that was great. However I just continued the REC because it was almost done at the time.Gary O.
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From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups. com [mailto:Sport_ Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Jim Bair
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 11:18 AM
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups. com
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was Transponders now Dual Controls
On my trike, your not missing anything by not being able to use the brake.
I consider foot throttle+foot steering to be all the trike carriage dual controls needed.
R. WilliamsRichard,99.9% of the time, you are absolutely correct. That's what I have, and I get by. But there are many times I would be a bit less tense if I could reach the ignition switches from where I sit, but I can't. I wish I had some brakes, but I don't. It's not the mag check that concerns me, it's the ability to stop suddenly even at idle and kill the engine when a child or a dog runs out to greet us and they don't know to stop. Or when a student making a right turn suddenly applies power because he forgets his foot needs to bend back. I teach students to put their hand on the ignition when in close proximity of other things or people, but I am still depending on them to react. Sometimes their ability to react seems to slow to a crawl and at the worst possible moments.Jim
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