Tom,

I fly form in my 360 with RV's about once a week.  The focal speed of around
140 kts (often less) is excruciating.  Sometimes I'll fly with about 10-20
degrees of flaps out to drag up my plane a little.  Personally, I use a
vernier throttle and 90% of the corrections are with the vernier.
Occasionally, failure to plan ahead enough requires the depression of the
button.

As far as throttle quadrants go, I've only flown form in one 360 with a
quadrant and it's power resolution was far too course for lower speed
formation flight. My guess is that your challenge will not be much improved
with a throttle quadrant. Others may have one that has nice resolution at
the lower end of the power band.

Larry Henney
N360LH
925 hrs



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom McNerney [mailto:dudewanarace@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 8:41 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: Throttle Quadrant in 320/360?

I have been doing a lot of formation flying with RV's recently.  This
means tons of small power changes while flying 140 kts..

I had plans to change the location of my throttle/prop/mixture cables to a
more comfortable location, but now I am considering a quadrant.

So, does anybody have any experience flying a 320/360 with a quadrant
installed?  Good or Bad?  Any brands that are better than others?  Am I
crazy for even thinking about doing this?  Are small movements possible
(like formation flying) with a quadrant?

I have electric trim so my center console is empty forward of the glove box.

Thanks,
Tom McNerney
N54SG