On 14 Mar, 08:06, Bruce Hoult wrote:
On Mar 14, 10:57*am, The Real Doctor
wrote:

Do your insurers know, by the way, that you have disabled a flight
control?

I have no idea. *That would I imagine be a question for our chief
instructor. *Personally I would not use it even if it was enabled, as
the effectiveness of the remaining controls is perfectly adequate and
exceeds that of more recent designs e.g. the Duo Discus.

I don't doubt it - the tail chute was never, as far as I know, fitted
to my club's Cirrus. But it would be an interesting problem in case of
an overshoot accident, wouldn't it?

Ian