From: ByronMFox@aol.com
Message-ID: <4dcd0693.24f039db@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:20:27 EDT
Subject: Re: LNC2 Flap Motor Travel
To: emccauley@bltinc.com, lancair.list@olsusa.com
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Ed McCauley just made me feel better.  For my 320, I went to NAPA and bought 
the narrowest red automotive striping tape they had just so I could remove it 
if I made a mistake.  Then, went back to the hangar and put the flaps full 
down.  On the vertical surface of the inboard side of the left aileron, while 
in its neutral position, I traced a pencil mark using the fully extended flap 
as straight edge and applied the first strip of tape.  Viola! 100% flaps. 
That took care of short final.  Divided the distance with another piece of 
tape.  Looked like 50% flaps to me.  So much for the base leg.  Didn't bother 
with a takeoff setting.  Figured I could just approximate 10-15 degrees on 
the ground before takeoff.

Why all this eyeballing?  Because that's the way Orrin taught me fly the 
factory 360 went I went for a duel checkout.  Their aircraft has no flap 
position indicator of any type.  After about the fifth time I asked if my 
flap setting was correct and got in return a "yeh, yeh that's good enough. 
Just don't overspeed the flaps", I decided airspeed in the pattern was more 
important than precise flap settings. You know - -head out of the cockpit and 
all that stuff.

Oh, I've been using the red stripes for 6 months. Working fine. No sign of 
pealing. Save your money for Bose headsets.

Byron Fox
N3144C
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