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--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Bair" <JimBair@...> wrote:
>
> 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 Orpe
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 1:48 PM
> Subject: 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.
> N181RL
> 661 746-4780
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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. Williams
>
> Richard,
> 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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