The placard can and should be replaced. You can buy it from
Beech or have one made.



"B A R R Y" wrote in
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| On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:22:54 -0700, "BTIZ"

| wrote:
|
| It would not be the best advice to say.. raise the
flaps to get more
| braking
| effect, but that is the placard in the Beech
Sport/Sundowner/Sierra
| series.
|
| In my '76 Sundowner, it cost me a set of tires before I
realized that
| flap retraction is pretty much mandatory for any decent
braking. My
| plane was missing the "Raise flaps..." placard. It's
super easy to
| lock / drag a wheel with the flaps down.
|
|
| How did it pass the annual every year if a placard was
missing?
|
| oops..
| B
|
|
| Excellent point. The device that is in the panel where
the placard
| was has been there ~ 15 years. I've owned the plane for 2
years.
|
| The placard is STILL missing. G