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On pre-flight inspections
On Jul 31, 10:46*pm, Mike Ash wrote:
In article , *a wrote: For what it's worth, I learned something back when cars had manual transmissions. I was taught to never hold the shifter, but to move it or 'slap' it in the right direction with an an open hand. *On my Mooney, the gear switch looks like a wheel, it would be easy to grasp it -- I never do. Down means pushing it down with my finger tips, , up means lifting it up with them. So far it's worked, but there's always tomorrow! Sensible when you can do it, but not workable for manual gear levers. The gear lever in my plane is a direct linkage requiring a significant amount of force, and so I have no choice but to grab it strongly. Worse, the lever's travel is fore-and-aft, making it extremely non-obvious which end corresponds to up and which to down! -- Mike Ash Radio Free Earth Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon I've never experienced it, but there must be a huge amount of ground effect float in something like a Mooney as it sinks that close to the ground with the gear up -- it would go well with that sinking feeling of OMG, wouldn't it? The only manual gear retraction airplane I flew was a Mooney Ranger (M20C), and that thing we called a Joe bar made gear position pretty obvious. |
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