Return-Path: Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.161.196]) by ns1.olsusa.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-64832U3500L350S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:47:58 -0400 Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.190]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA19513 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:54:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wilkins ([128.173.82.25]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with SMTP id <0FYE00HZLXEI7H@gkar.cc.vt.edu> for lancair.list@olsusa.com; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:54:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:11:38 -0400 From: "Tracy D. Wilkins" Subject: Re:LNC2 -Gear up warning system In-reply-to: <20000728045742.AAA6981@ns1.olsusa.com> To: lancair.list@olsusa.com Message-id: <4.1.20000728105042.00c9fc50@mail.vt.edu> X-Mailing-List: lancair.list@olsusa.com Reply-To: lancair.list@olsusa.com Mime-Version: 1.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> << Lancair Builders' Mail List >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> 1.)How much trouble is it to install the gear warning system ($650 or so) that Lancair sells when you have already installed the gear switches etc.? (Our 360 was built by someone else). A similar system possible saved me a prop, belly skin and embarrassment several years ago in a Cessna 182retract so I believe in them. You don't need them when things are going smoothly -its when the unexpected happens that your mind messes up... in my case the tower told me to go around, I raised the gear, then a minute later they changed their minds.....without the alert I might not have remembered to put them down again since I was now out of sequence and had my hands full getting lined up again....when I lowered the flaps the alarm horn sounded and I remembered. The voice is even better since sometimes you don't know which horn is which (in a 182 landing the stall horn beeps just before touchdown). Its also nice to be told to pick up the gear - last year I was riding right seat in a King Air when the pilot forgot to raise the gear - wondered why we were going so slow! It has happened moe than once to me in the 360 when things are happening fast. 2.) How much trouble and time is it to take wings off an LNC2? I need to have some touch up paint done on a wing tip and that would be so much easier if I could cart it to the paint shop. We have even contemplated taking the body to the upholstery shop in a trailer - but the wing removal has us worried... Tracy Wilkins >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LML website: http://www.olsusa.com/Users/Mkaye/maillist.html LML Builders' Bookstore: http://www.buildersbooks.com/lancair Please send your photos and drawings to marvkaye@olsusa.com. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>