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Barely reach rudder pedals
Hi,
I'm vertically challenged, especially my legs. When I am seated as far forward as possible in my Cirrus, I'm touching the rudder pedals with the tips of my toes, with the pedals adjusted to the full back position. Could people who have experience with this problem please share how they resolved it. My thoughts are to put an extension on the pedals, but am unsure of the best way to do that. Thanks, Dan |
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Barely reach rudder pedals
"keelstrake" wrote in message ups.com... Hi, I'm vertically challenged, especially my legs. When I am seated as far forward as possible in my Cirrus, I'm touching the rudder pedals with the tips of my toes, with the pedals adjusted to the full back position. Could people who have experience with this problem please share how they resolved it. My thoughts are to put an extension on the pedals, but am unsure of the best way to do that. Thanks, Dan In my libelle 301 we made longer cables to give me more room maybe in a cirrus you could shorten the cables. Or wear high heals LOL |
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Barely reach rudder pedals
It is probably safer to add raising to your footwear than to try to put
blocks on the rudder pedals. I have raising on my right boot, as my right leg is several inches shorter than the left, as part of my standard equipment for walking, anyway. Surgical footwear, for want of a better description, is designed for the job. A do-it-yourself approach may be hard to engineer satisfactorily without risk of the raising coming loose and causing problems, but with ingenuity it could no doubt be done. Modifying the glider would no doubt involve somebody having to approve the modification and signing it off, and depending on the range of movement, may make it difficult for other people, if you share it. Chris N. |
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Barely reach rudder pedals
Depending on the pedal design, wood blocks made from plywood might be
suitable. Be sure they are fastened securely and absolutely, positively cannot come loose. bumper "Mal" wrote in message news "keelstrake" wrote in message ups.com... Hi, I'm vertically challenged, especially my legs. When I am seated as far forward as possible in my Cirrus, I'm touching the rudder pedals with the tips of my toes, with the pedals adjusted to the full back position. Could people who have experience with this problem please share how they resolved it. My thoughts are to put an extension on the pedals, but am unsure of the best way to do that. Thanks, Dan In my libelle 301 we made longer cables to give me more room maybe in a cirrus you could shorten the cables. Or wear high heals LOL |
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Barely reach rudder pedals
bumper a écrit: Depending on the pedal design, wood blocks made from plywood might be suitable. Be sure they are fastened securely and absolutely, positively cannot come loose. I saw some years ago in Spain a guy from Lasham, GB, who flew a Discus with such wood blocks tied to his shoes (and a rope to get the wheel up) |
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jerome wrote: bumper a écrit: Depending on the pedal design, wood blocks made from plywood might be suitable. Be sure they are fastened securely and absolutely, positively cannot come loose. I saw some years ago in Spain a guy from Lasham, GB, who flew a Discus with such wood blocks tied to his shoes (and a rope to get the wheel up) A fellow I knew had a short leg, and had a shoemaker glue a thick cork sole to one shoe. A pair of slip ons with thick cork soles might work nicely. Rich |
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Barely reach rudder pedals
In certain shoe stores, they used to sell black lace-up sneakers with 3 to 4
inch soles in both mens' and womens' sizes. You might check with someone a bit younger than me to see if they're still available. My son used them when flying a Grob 103 and said that they worked well. Ray Warshaw 1LK "rich" wrote in message oups.com... jerome wrote: bumper a écrit: Depending on the pedal design, wood blocks made from plywood might be suitable. Be sure they are fastened securely and absolutely, positively cannot come loose. I saw some years ago in Spain a guy from Lasham, GB, who flew a Discus with such wood blocks tied to his shoes (and a rope to get the wheel up) A fellow I knew had a short leg, and had a shoemaker glue a thick cork sole to one shoe. A pair of slip ons with thick cork soles might work nicely. Rich |
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Barely reach rudder pedals
keelstrake wrote:
Hi, I'm vertically challenged, especially my legs. When I am seated as far forward as possible in my Cirrus, I'm touching the rudder pedals with the tips of my toes, with the pedals adjusted to the full back position. Could people who have experience with this problem please share how they resolved it. My thoughts are to put an extension on the pedals, but am unsure of the best way to do that. In a related matter, I've noticed that in some gliders (including my 301 Libelle) I find myself putting a lot of pressure on the rudder pedals which puts a strain on the feet. I think aircraft with larger rudder pedals aren't nearly as straining because the force is distributed over a wider area of the foot. I've tried putting less "common mode" pressure on it, but I don't feel as much in control when I do that. I was thinking of installing a wood block to better distribute the force, but I'm concerned about the safety of that. Does anyone have a good solution? dan |
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Barely reach rudder pedals
This is a little outside my experience. My problem is cockpits not long
enough for my height. But climbing into the cockpit with unstable footwear troubles me a little. I wear lightweight hiking boots while flying to provide more ankle support in case I ever have to use my parachute. Sure, it's a minuscule chance but I know of several guys who've broken ankles after bailing out and it's an easy enough precaution. Hitting the ground under a parachute while wearing 4" platform shoes strikes me as asking to make a bad situation worse. I can see the objections to taping wood blocks to the pedals. I believe I've seen rudder pedal extensions (in a Schweizer trainer?) consisting of a second pedal hinged to the floor and offset behind the first pedal by a few inches and connected to it with a pushrod. That's probably much easier to install on the spacious, flat plywood floor of a 2-33 than in a glass singleplace cockpit. And it but it's worth thinking about. Chip Bearden ASW 24 "JB" |
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"no thank" wrote in message ... I've tried putting less "common mode" pressure on it, but I don't feel as much in control when I do that. I was thinking of installing a wood block to better distribute the force, but I'm concerned about the safety of that. Let me guess...you are strictly a glider pilot? That "common mode" pressure habit I somehow aquired while exclusively flying gliders had to be lost quickly when I started flying airplanes. Have you ever made a locked brake landing in a Cessna? I did...once. Seriously, your legs are strong and you can apply hundreds of pounds of pressure that way without even thinking about it. Have you ever taken a good look at how light some of that rudder control rigging is? Vaughn Does anyone have a good solution? dan |
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