Most Important Control On My Plane

Robert M. Gary wrote:
Jerry wrote:
Most important control
Start switch

Or stop switch. When I had the Chief I once had a bad mag ground that
prevented the mags from shutting off. Since the Chief has no idle cut
off mixture all I could do was to shut the fuel valve off and sit and
wait, and wait, and wait.

-Robert

With the old Stromberg carbs on those things one can maybe
run the RPM up to 1200 or so, yank it back to idle, and just as the
engine is reaching its lowest RPM you slam the throttle wide open.
It'll usually quit. The lean mixture on decreasing RPM and the lack of
an accelerator pump will starve it enough to quit.
But it's still better to run it out of fuel, for safety. I do
that with my A-65.

Dan

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Most important control
Radio transmit

Hey, I'm a "Use the radio, dammit!" guy from way back -- but even I
wouldn't rate the transmit button as my "most important control"...

Maybe number three or so...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Charles Talleyrand" wrote in message
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Type of plane
I have a VFR Cessna 150.

Most important control
Radio transmit

Least important control
Pitot heat (if you need it, you shouldn't be flying)

Never working control
Parking brake

Scariest control
Landing light (when it suddenly failed during a night landing)

Control I never use
Transponder test

Control in the wrong place
Fuel shutoff (right where me feet can kick it)

Control I fixate about
Mixture

Control that impresses non-pilot passengers
GPS on button

Wallet.

Lee McGee
Mount Aukum, California

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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Gas Cap

"Jerry" wrote in message
m...
Most important control
Start switch

Jerry

"Charles Talleyrand" wrote in message
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Type of plane
I have a VFR Cessna 150.

Most important control
Radio transmit


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"Roger" wrote in message
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On 27 Nov 2006 23:22:45 -0800, "Charles Talleyrand"
wrote:


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I was not thinking of the yoke or pedals as controls. I was thinking
more buttons and knobs. If they count ... then it's the elevator.

Nah. You should be able to fly using ailerons and trim without the
elevator. I had one instructor have me land doing just that. The AOPA
even put out a video on doing it.
...

I dunno that I would want to have to land, but I did manage to fly about an
hour with just the trim and skooching back and forth between the left and
right seats. (C-120)

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Geoff
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: Because I fly a VFR Cessna 150. When would I need pitot heat assuming
: the weather was good enough to fly in the first place. In other
: words,
: if I need pitot heat, what I really needed was better decision making
: before takeoff.

: To each, his or her own limits. However, pitot heat isn't only useful in
: below freezing conditions. It used to be a practice to have the pitot
: heat on before flight into visible moisture. I realize you mentioned VFR
: only Charles, but it seems to me that this thread was tending to suggest
: that pitot heat was for use during below freezing conditions, and that's
: just not always the case.

One of the most surprising cases of airframe icing I've encountered in my PA28-180 was in VMC under VFR near Kenosha,
WI...

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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On 26 Nov 2006 19:51:09 -0800, "Charles Talleyrand"
wrote:

Type of plane
I have a VFR Cessna 150.

Most important control
Radio transmit

Least important control
Pitot heat (if you need it, you shouldn't be flying)

Never working control
Parking brake

Scariest control
Landing light (when it suddenly failed during a night landing)

Control I never use
Transponder test

Control in the wrong place
Fuel shutoff (right where me feet can kick it)

Control I fixate about
Mixture

Control that impresses non-pilot passengers
GPS on button

starter...dont leave home without it