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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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