On 01/11/2007 10:58 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: > Where is the gear lever?
It can be (barely) seen in this picture http://www.air-pros.com/images/C182RG-Panel.jpg It is a black kinda-wheel-shaped knob on the end of a lever. It can be seen peeking out just below the pilot's yoke, centered L/R on a vertical line through the VOR/CDI and ADF indicators. The lever is at least 10 cm long and pivots on an axis well inside the panel. It directly operates a valve, not any kind of puny electrical switch. The pivot is centered up/down on a horizontal line through the autopilot. A nicer angle on it can be seen here: http://www.air-pros.com/images/C182RG-Panel.-2.jpg > Also, does the -182RG have some kind of > gear indicator Gear down is indicted by a single round green light, about 1cm in diameter, just to the left of the gear handle. It's part of a larger structure about 2cm in diameter and sticking 1 or 2 cm out from the panel, made of metal, that implements funky push-to-test and dimmer (shutter) features. You can see it in the second picture if you know what to look for. Directly above it is a similarly-constructed amber light to indicate gear fully up. Gear-in-transit is indicated by both lights being out. Pushing the amber light simply tests the light. That's boring on the ground, because the light is supposed to already be on. Pushing the green light _part way_ tests the light in the obvious way. Pushing it harder tests the gear-warning horn. The wiring diagram in the POH shows the wire that implements this feature, but you'd never figure out the semantics by reading the POH. If you pull the throttle back beyond a certain point, it will trigger the gear warning horn (if the gear isn't down). If you extend the flaps beyond 25 degrees, it triggers the gear warning horn. Note that the 2nd notch of flaps is 20 degrees, so you need definitely more than two notches of flaps to get the warning. (This strikes me as kinda useless, because I often land with only two notches of flaps. But that's getting off-topic.) Anything else? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
