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1. 12:50 AM - Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning System (Remi Guerner)
2. 01:10 AM - Re: Factory upholstery kit (Kelvin Weston)
3. 01:28 AM - Re: Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning System (roddyeuropa@aol.com)
4. 01:51 AM - Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning System (Remi Guerner)
5. 03:11 AM - Re: Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning System (David Joyce)
6. 04:32 AM - Re: farm strips guide offered (Rowland Carson)
7. 05:13 AM - Re: Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning System (rparigor@suffolk.lib.ny.us)
8. 08:04 AM - NSI VP Prop (Scudrunner)
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| Subject: | Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning System |
Stephan,
I am interested in this subject as I am planning to install a Smart ass and the
associated landing gear warning.
In my opinion there is one weakness in your system: if your gear/flap lever is
in the down position but not completely pushed to the right the lock is not engaged
and your system will not detect it. This "gear down and unlocked" situation
happened to me twice recently. Fortunately in both occasions I detected it
during the second check and pushed the lever into the locked position before
landing.
Has anyone fitted a switch which detect the position of the lock?
Remi
F-PGKL
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| Subject: | Re: Factory upholstery kit |
Thanks Keith / Ron
You have confirmed my thoughts about the seat back cushion.
I spoke with Ingrid at Auto-Trim, the company that makes the factory kit and she
sent me this reply regarding the conflict with the wing spar pins:
Having seen the aircraft, the position of the pins and the comments from potential
customers I have made the decision to modify the pattern and cut away the
foam in that area and re shape the cover accordingly.
Good to hear, a bit late for those that have already purchased a kit or seats and
still doesn't address the potential problem of the gap between the bottom of
the seat back and the cockpit module.
At the moment, I am investigating some local upholstery businesses to see what
they can offer and at what price. Living near to the sailing areas of Portsmouth
and The Solent, there are lots of marine upholsterers that have shown an interest.
I have also approached some car and vehicle trimmers.
To assess what I wanted from the seat cushions, I purchased some foam from a company
that will cut any shape and size for you either regular shapes, or to your
supplied template. I had some rectangles cut to the required thickness for
the main part of the seat base and seat back and also some trapezium and triangle
shaped bits for under the knees and as an infill for the gap at the lower
back.
I glued the various bits together to form the two cushions and cut the back to
the headrest shape. They look good even without covers, are really comfortable
to sit on and should give me a good template to take to the upholsterer. I
will probably substitute some Dynafoam or Confor foam for the seat base in the
final configuration.
I ordered enough foam for two seats to allow a bit of experimenting and this only
cost 20 uk pounds. Well worth the expense and time getting it right if I'm
going to spend several hundreds on the final upholstered article.
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Regards
Kelv Weston
Kit 497
kelv@kdweston.biz
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| Subject: | Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning System |
're- Has anyone fitted a switch which detect the position of the lock?'
Yes, I have a small magnet on the gear down latch which activates a magneti
c reed switch on the console only when the latch is in the right position.
This lights up a green light 'gear down'. I didn't want to use a microswitc
h as I thought there was a chance that it could interfere with the latching
, which relies of the latch dropping into position under its own (light) we
ight.
Roddy Kesterton
G-IKRK
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From: Remi Guerner <air.guerner@orange.fr>
Sent: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 9:17
Subject: Europa-List: Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning S
ystem
Stephan,
I am interested in this subject as I am planning to install a Smart ass and
the
associated landing gear warning.
In my opinion there is one weakness in your system: if your gear/flap lever
is
in the down position but not completely pushed to the right the lock is not
engaged and your system will not detect it. This "gear down and unlocked"
situation happened to me twice recently. Fortunately in both occasions I
detected it during the second check and pushed the lever into the locked
position before landing.
Has anyone fitted a switch which detect the position of the lock?
Remi
F-PGKL
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| Subject: | Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning System |
Roddy,
Do you have pictures showing details of your installation?
Remi
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| Subject: | Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning |
System
Remi, My gear down system, iinked into my SmartASS is
triggered by a small micro switch bonded on the bottom of
the gear slot so that it only activates when the lever is
completely in the detent - foolproof! Regards, David
Joyce, G-XSDJ
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:49:56 -0700
"Remi Guerner" <air.guerner@orange.fr> wrote:
><air.guerner@orange.fr>
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> Stephan,
> I am interested in this subject as I am planning to
>install a Smart ass and the associated landing gear
>warning.
> In my opinion there is one weakness in your system: if
>your gear/flap lever is in the down position but not
>completely pushed to the right the lock is not engaged
>and your system will not detect it. This "gear down and
>unlocked" situation happened to me twice recently.
>Fortunately in both occasions I detected it during the
>second check and pushed the lever into the locked
>position before landing.
> Has anyone fitted a switch which detect the position of
>the lock?
> Remi
>F-PGKL
>
>
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=408543#408543
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>Forums!
>Admin.
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| Subject: | Re: farm strips guide offered |
On 12 Sep 2013, at 14:01, Rowland Carson wrote:
> I have a 5th edition (one before current) of the Farm Strip Guide. It's available
free to anyone who can offer it a good home
It's gone!
in friendship
Rowland
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| Subject: | Re: Landing Gear Warning SystemLanding Gear Warning |
System
Hi Remi
Has anyone fitted a switch which detect the position of the lock?
I installed a reed switch that detects a magnet in the latch. I detail
components in europa owners link on prior e-mail.
Ron Parigoris
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Anyone (in the UK) using the NSI VP prop? I might be able to help you out with
spare parts (um not blades though)
Howard [Embarassed]
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