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Cessna Horn too quiet
I'm a member of a club that has a Cessna 177RG.
I just got checked out in it today , and the gear horn is waaaay too quiet. I want a gear horn that is soo loud it will make your teeth hurt. A club member landed it gear up about 4 months ago, so the owner of this particular plane would also like to make the gear horn louder. Anyone else had this problem? Anyoune else have a solution? As the gear horn and stall warning horn are part of the required equipment fro the initial certification, how hard is it to modify the system, to pipe the sound into the audio panel? Can you put a peizo buzzer on the horn? Paul |
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But there are times when it is completely reasonable to have the pressure
down low but the gear still stowed. I don't want my teeth hurting then grin. You can fly it that way, but I try to make it a point to not fly with the gear horn on for more than a few seconds, if I have to dump the gear and then pull it back up later I find that preferable to running with the gear horn on. I realize that some aircraft have very restrictive gear operation speed limits, and this may not always possible when operating in an ATC driven IFR environment. Pulling the throttle back to the gear warning point above gear externsion speed probably cools the engine too quickly and seems to be an indicator of poor descent planning. Nothing says you can't slow down before you get to where you are going. Maybe with all the cool new technology we will eventually have a smart GPS driven gear horn, One that only goes off when less than 1K AGL within 2 miles of an airport. Until that time I will do my best to never fly with the gear horn is on. Flame away... Paul |
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I'm a member of a club that has a Cessna 177RG. I just got checked out in it today , and the gear horn is waaaay too quiet. I want a gear horn that is soo loud it will make your teeth hurt. I found a electrolytic capacitor that had lost most of its capacity to be the cause of a too quiet Cessna gear warning. This capacitor couples the audio generated by the warning circuit to the aircraft audio. Have you compared this aircraft's warning horn to another? Cheers: Paul |
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"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com... The Cutlass may differ from the R182 in this respect, but I dislike cycling the R182's gear any more than necessary. The system is hydraulic with no backup in case one loses all the fluid. I believe that the 172RG has a similar gear system to the 182RG. Cycling the gear doesn't use up hydraulic fluid. It's stored back in the reservoir for use at a later time. Pete |
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Peter Duniho wrote:
Cycling the gear doesn't use up hydraulic fluid. It's stored back in the reservoir for use at a later time. ....assuming nothing is broken. - Andrew |
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What I want is a horn that I can honk when someone cuts me off in the
pattern, and it should be so loud it makes THEIR teeth hurt... wrote in message . .. I'm a member of a club that has a Cessna 177RG. I just got checked out in it today , and the gear horn is waaaay too quiet. I want a gear horn that is soo loud it will make your teeth hurt. A club member landed it gear up about 4 months ago, so the owner of this particular plane would also like to make the gear horn louder. Anyone else had this problem? Anyoune else have a solution? As the gear horn and stall warning horn are part of the required equipment fro the initial certification, how hard is it to modify the system, to pipe the sound into the audio panel? Can you put a peizo buzzer on the horn? Paul |
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"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
gonline.com... Cycling the gear doesn't use up hydraulic fluid. It's stored back in the reservoir for use at a later time. ...assuming nothing is broken. Lots of bad things can happen to your airplane is something is broken. But that doesn't mean you should avoid doing otherwise reasonable things with your airplane, just because it *could* be broken. Do you avoid extending the flaps, just because the flap motor could fail? Do you avoid using carb heat, just because the cable could break? Do you avoid adjusting the mixture, just because the cable could break? Do you avoid making turns, just because the ailerons could get stuck? No, of course not. Those are all things that are done as a normal pilot input during any various part of a flight. Likewise, if there's call to lower or raise the gear, the pilot should do that, rather than worrying that the act of using some installed equipment on the plane might break that equipment. If you are really that worried that you'll break something on the plane, then you should rethink whether that plane is one you really ought to be flying in. Pete |
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turn off the ANR on your headset... but I agree.. a C177Rg I used to fly,
with a standard headset.. one could barely hear the gear horn.. perhaps it should be piped into the headset? BT wrote in message ... I'm a member of a club that has a Cessna 177RG. I just got checked out in it today , and the gear horn is waaaay too quiet. I want a gear horn that is soo loud it will make your teeth hurt. A club member landed it gear up about 4 months ago, so the owner of this particular plane would also like to make the gear horn louder. Anyone else had this problem? Anyoune else have a solution? As the gear horn and stall warning horn are part of the required equipment fro the initial certification, how hard is it to modify the system, to pipe the sound into the audio panel? Can you put a peizo buzzer on the horn? Paul |
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