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Posted a picture of Howard's panel. You can't mistake which way is gear up
or down, and as it should be handle down is gear down, handle up is gear up!

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "drew" <drewjan@cabletv.on.ca>
To: <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: TSBC Sea plane Safety Studies

So would that be up for water or up for land? I try to stay extrra alert
when in the pattern as to my gear condition. My Wife is also quite
interested in self preservation and starts offering to pump the gear about
10 miles out. :)



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Patterson" <apat@istar.ca>
To: <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: TSBC Sea plane Safety Studies

Hi Ken !

FWIW, several people have mounted the MAM selector sideways,
so up is UP .... ;-)

I like Keith Kinden's approach, though - he uses coloured
lights, yellow for land, and blue for water, ??? ... IIRC !
(caution)
......bobp

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At 11:20 PM 10/24/03 -0400, you wrote:

Yup I agree but I think it might be worth going one further because
MAM's left/right selector switch is a trap IMO.

The knob really should move up and down.

Personally I planned a duck swimming in the lake on top and a dusty

road

runner on bottom :) Color keying it so it shows black when down and
blue when up might be a thought as well but nothing beats looking out
the window. Unfortunately that doesn't help the scenario that I've

read

about the most which is an interupted routine and not checking it every
time. Assuming the gear is up because "I always retract it after
takeoff" is a favourite. Getting in the habit of not checking when
operating on welded gear for part of the year is a trap as well. Then
there are the retractable wheel/skiis in winter that add even more

fun...

So it doesn't hurt to also explain to any passenger how to check the
gear. They always took an interest once I mentioned how exciting it
would be to mess it up ;)

Ken

Mike Kimball wrote:

switch

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Nice picture Wayne. Can't get any simpler than that! I used to own a Mooney
and that's how the gear selector was. When the selector was up, the gear was
up, when the selector was down, the gear was down. No fancy lights or
indicators. It worked for me.

Bruce



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Thanks Ken! That's all I do as well, every few days to see what else has
been posted lately. It also comes up as the only "NEW" picture in the float
installation file if you go there instead.

The biggest thing we need to get into everyones head on here is to hit reply
and THEN CORRECT THE SUBJECT!!

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: <klehman@albedo.net>
To: <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: TSBC Sea plane Safety Studies

FWIW I always click the button for "New" files and the list is pretty
obvious then for recently posted files. That narrowed the choice to 3
this morning for instance.
Ken

Warren Montgomery wrote:

GCYP panel.jpg
<https://rebel:builder@www.dcsol.com/fil ... +panel.jpg>

I concure Peter, I find it frustating to find pics as posted.
Would everyone be so kind as to provide a file extension when refering
to saved pics.

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