Only when you're straight and level.Isn’t it easier to simply compare the deflection against the aileron?
If you are displacing the ailerons in the pattern enough to make it difficult to compare to flap deployment, then you probably don’t need to worry about the specific deflection of your flaps.Only when you're straight and level.
If you are displacing the ailerons in the pattern enough to make it difficult to compare to flap deployment, then you probably don’t need to worry about the specific deflection of your flaps.
Hilarious! This is the content I am here for.When you can see Kilroy's hair, you have 10 degrees, when you can see the top of his head you have 20 degrees, when you can just see his eyes you have 30 and when you can see all of him you have 40 degrees.
My apologies... I do flight test for a living and sometimes the humor gets overshadowed by practicality.…Don't be a kill-joy for my Kilroy!
I spoke to an owner at OSH one year who had a very nice visual indication of his exact flap position so I asked him about it. He said it turned out to be a waste of time, since he could tell flap position by the number of seconds on the flap switch, and glancing out the window. His experience matches mine.Isn’t it easier to simply compare the deflection against the aileron?
This seems really easy until I recall how miserably I fail at this concept when I go looking for that elusive 7th gear on pretty much every motorcycle I've ever owned....I don't really need any indication system, because each activation of the flap switch gives me 10 degrees so I only need to count switch taps....
Me too. When my flap handle is in the middle notch, I’m at half flaps. When the lever is up in the top notch, I’m at full flaps. Very precise, and it always works - without fail.For my manual flaps, I just use my hand to feel and figure out how many notches I have out.
2 short grease pencil lines at 1/3 and 2/3 flaps. Touched up maybe twice in 14 years.
I cannot imagine that anyone is not using the reflex position. After all, that’s the configuration that gives the most speed, at least down low.Are people using/marking the reflexed position?