On Nov 29, 12:41 pm, "Tim Mara" wrote:
With regard to manual control hook-ups, I don't find them to be a
problem. It takes 20 seconds to connect the L'Hotelliers, and less
than a minute to pin them. You can easily see things if you put your
eye to the inspection hatch, and it's easy to manually verify through
pushing the button while pulling and twisting to verify that they're
properly engaged.

must be you're not yet over 50 and into the bifocal user's group....with
Popeye forearms going into tiny hatch opening connections are essentially in
brail, with bright sun looking onto a white fuselage with a black hole to
inspect the connections even making the connetion, say nothing of safety
pins in almost guesswork... I know few who can say that they never missed a
connection at least once....double and triple check them!

No, almost 60 years young, and I've been wearing bifocals for over 15
years. But then I don't look at the connections until I'm done. I just
grab the control rods and hook up the L'Hotelliers, followed by
putting the safety pins into their holes. I don't find it that hard...

As for checking, there I do look for proper connection and the pins by
placing my face on the fuselage and shielding my eyes from the outside
light. I also have someone else do a crtical assembly check, in which
I ask that they look for the pins and pull on them to make sure
they're engaged.

I can't speak from personal experience regarding the Pegasus, but the
previous owner of my ship bought one. For what it's worth, he said the
Pegasus flew like a truck in comparison to the ASW-19.

must have been a really nice ASW19 and a really bad Pegasus! They are
essentially the same with modified non-flapped 20 wings on the
Pegasus.....The Pegasus probably then I guess flys more like a 20 than it
does a 19.

Again, it's not my experience. The man flew the ASW-19 for 21 years,
and was definitely underwhelmed by the Pegasus. I guess it's as they
say, YMMV.

-John