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Hi all, Just a couple of items. This cable tension discussion seems a bit strange to me. I can speak with authority on the subject because I know nothing about it. It would seem to me that having four or five hundred pounds of total cable pull would be enough to come close to collapsing the tail cone. The rudder cables should need light tension as they do very little on the coupe. If the elevator cables are somewhat more than lightly tensioned, with the limited up and down travel, I can't imagine the elevator flopping around. Regardless of what the book says, I'd be willing to bet 30 or 40 pounds of pull on the cables would give positive control and a lot less stress on the fuselage, bell cranks, and bearing surfaces. I know this will drive experts nuts, but you have a good sized cable doing very little. I know of a coupe that got the rudder cables backward after being worked on. The plane had two or three annuals and two owners before the problem was found. They said it just made sloppy steep turns, so the first owner sold it to the second because he wasn't overly impressed with the handling. In reality you could most likely immoblize the rudders straight ahead and hardly notice it. On the bird watch warnings - I heard a student pilot in a C-150 nervously report in a high stressed voice that he had had a near bird strike on approach. The controller said, "Sorry, sir, there is nothing I can do about near strikes, but I will attempt to contact the offending flight". A Canada Goose did hit a C-172 on approach to Victoria, B.C. It came through the prop, and then the windshield, and into the cockpit. The plane got down alright, the pilot badly shaken, with feathers, blood, and various other bird matter spread all over the cockpit. It looked like a massacre had taken place. Jon Page 415-C #2675 __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
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